Applying Functional Genomics Technologies to Crop Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 207
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional genomics; plant systems biology; plant stress responses; plant-microbial homeostasis
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to the rapid growth of human population and to forefront the consequent increasing food demand, improvements in agricultural productivity and ensuring safe crop productions together with highly performing plants are crucial tasks to be addressed. In this optic, a deep understanding of the relationships between genotype and phenotype is the key to derive knowledge about gene expression patterns, gene regulatory networks, interactions among genes and among their products and on how responses to various stimuli may affect biological processes. Currently, high-throughput technologies and related bioinformatics-assisted analysis can drive the process and have the potential to cover this knowledge through functional genomics approaches.
This Special Issue in Agriculture will focus on functional genomics studies on crops. Topics of interest are related, but not limited, to developmental processes, stress responses, functional and comparative genomics and other applications of high-throughput techniques and related bioinformatics analysis, which connect genotype and phenotype.
The formats suitable for submissions include original research articles, review articles and short communications. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a blind peer-review process.
Dr. Gabriella Sferra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crop
- functional genomics
- bioinformatics
- high-throughput data
- plant biology
- systems biology
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