Cruciferae Plant Breeding and Cultivation Management
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Cruciferae; plant germplasm; genome; genome editing; interspecific hybridization; chromosome recombination
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Special Issue Information
Cruciferae plants include a number of economically important edible vegetable, oilseed and industrial crops as well as highly diverse wild germplasm. Plants with higher abiotic stress tolerance, disease and pest resistance and of higher quality have long been a goal of plant breeders. However, the elimination of wild germplasm and landraces leads to the loss of disease resistance and quality genes. Furthermore, selection or biotechnological enforcement for either quality parameters or agronomic benefits may unintentionally compromise the other unless a holistic view is taken.
For this Special Issue, we particularly invite studies that take a holistic view on classical and biotechnological breeding, taking into account field performance parameters as well as product quality. We likewise invite fundamental studies investigating the effects of plant characteristics on a comprehensive scale, and studies of wild crop relatives aiming at increasing crop gene pools.
Breeding for quality parameters such as health benefits, shelf life and taste are important breeding goals. The cultivation managements facing the challenges include climate change, pollution, disease and pest adaptation.
With respect to specific study types, this Special Issue will include essentially any methodology and scale, from macroscopic crop features, classic agronomy and genetics to the entire range of molecular genetics, biochemistry and omics methods, as well as any kind of genetic modification, genome editing or systematic use of random mutant libraries and the cultivation management of Cruciferae plants.
Dr. Xiaohui Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cruciferae
- plant
- breeding
- cultivation
- genetics
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