Genetics and Breeding of Field Crops in the 21st Century—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 1094
Special Issue Editors
Interests: breeding field crops; doubled haploid production; cytogenetics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: climate change; abiotic stress; vegetable crop; nutritional value; plant improvement; horticulture research; sustainable agriculture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Genetics has always been the main tool for understanding and evaluating crop behavior. This facilitated the production of new cultivars with better-yielding efficiency, contributing to developing plant breeding as an important science. Thus, breeding field crops have proved to be essential to ensure food and feed supply in adequate quantities to meet human and livestock demands. This procedure, although sufficiently effective, faces serious risks due to climate change, the emergence of new and more aggressive biotic factors and wrong human actions resulting in marginal environments.
The aim and scope of this upcoming Special Issue is to bring together old and new attempts that contribute to solving the aforementioned risks. Classical breeding can use the current developments of molecular breeding, doubled haploidy and even speed breeding in order to accomplish this goal.
This Special Issue welcomes review, research and short communication papers that can contribute to improvement in plant breeding.
Dr. Ioannis N. Xynias
Dr. Ilias D. Avdikos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- yield
- quality
- food supply
- climate change
- sustainable agriculture
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- Genetics and Breeding of Field Crops in the 21st Century in Agronomy (18 articles)
