Genomic-Oriented Precision Breeding and Smart Farming in Model Plants and Cash Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Innovative Cropping Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2022) | Viewed by 3258
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop functional genomics; crop breeding; plant development and epigenetics; gene editing and biosynthesis; phenomics and machine learning
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: polyploidy evolution; gene expression regulation, RNA systemic signaling regulation; plant-pathogen interaction; crop domestication; soybean breeding; wheat genome evolution
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How to fulfill the ever-increasing demands of 10-billion people by 2050 spurs global scientists to provide comprehensive solutions and cutting-edge technologies. In the last decade, with the advantages of in-depth mechanisms and practical methods achieved from model plants, crop studies quickly combine canonical and breakthrough principles. Thanks to large-scale whole-genome sequencing, CRISPR/CAS-based genome editing, and transdisciplinary phenomics, scientists would be able to efficiently improve crop performance by designing key agronomic traits, creating high-quality and less-controversial cultivars, and upgrading farm management in digital and smart ways.
This Special Issue of Agronomy entitled “Genomic-Oriented Precision Breeding and Smart Farming in Model Plants and Cash Crops” calls for interesting and exciting findings in some highlighted aspects.
- Causal and major function genes in keystone agronomic traits;
- Large-scale investigation of germplasm resources;
- In-depth characterization of genetic and epigenetic crosstalks;
- Gene editing of loss- or gain-of-function and moderate modifications;
- Computational solutions of phenotyping and farm management.
This Special Issue is not limited to the fields mentioned above. All relevant studies with good quality are welcome.
Dr. Yang Zhu
Dr. Xutong Wang
Prof. Dr. Junjie Tan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop breeding
- crop functional genomics
- crop development
- crop epigenetics
- gene editing
- biosynthesis
- phenomics
- machine learning
