Genome Sequencing and Analysis in Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2020) | Viewed by 2740
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant genomics; gene expression; gene regulation; bioinformatics and computational biology; DNA sequencing; evolution
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The past two decades has seen the initial implementation and development of plant genome sequencing followed by sequential deciphering of numerous crop genomes. Intrinsic obstacles that are different from genomes in human and animals like e.g often found polypoidy, long and complex tracts of repetitive DNA and in part the sheer size of at least some of the crop genomes has asked for the development of technologies, strategies and approaches different from recipes used in genome sequencing in other kingdoms of life.
However, now for a wide variety of different crop reference genomes have been made available over the last years and enabled to now address important and fundamental biological questions and the speedy characterization and cloning of genes underlying traits of interest.
The special issues will aim to reflect on the current status of crop genome sequencing and the new and exciting avenues that are now open to be explored by putting the reference genomes to work. Ms. to be considered in the Agronomy special issue on Crop Genome Sequencing can thus embrace a broader spectrum of research contributions that are interlinked with genomes and new directions and challenges in crop genomics -reaching far beyond application of sequencing technology only-:
- genomes and genome sequencing technology in the large and complex crops
- polyploid crop genomics
- phenomes
- crop transcriptomes
- crop proteomes
- the transition to breeding (pan-genomes and -regulomes)
- germplasm dynamics; drift and fixation
- domestication genomics
- quantitative genetics & genomics;
- heterosis and how (pan)genome insights help to understand and utilize the phenomenon in advance plant breeding
Prof. Dr. Klaus F. X. Mayer
Guest Editor
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