Enhancing Crop Resilience: GWAS and Gene-by-Environment Interaction
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 422
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Interests: genome-wide association studies; QTL mapping; comparative genomics and bioinformatics; bulked segregant analysis
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Interests: quantitative methodology; genomics assisted breeding; cancer bioinformatics
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Interests: genomic selection; genome-wide association studies; QTL mapping
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the establishment of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 1996, GWAS have focused on detecting genes for binary, categorical and quantitative traits in animal, plant and human genetics. However, as climate change intensifies, attention is turning to the identification of gene-by-environment interactions (GEIs) for these traits, such as phenotypic plasticity. Recent advances in GWAS methodologies, such as the establishment of the compressed variance component mixed model method for identifying GEIs and deciphering phenotypic plasticity, are opening up new opportunities for improving crop resilience.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in “Enhancing Crop Resilience: GWAS and Gene-by-Environment Interaction”. We welcome new research and reviews covering all related topics, including new methods and software packages, and their development and application in crop breeding: gene-by-environment interaction, phenotypic plasticity, linkage mapping, GWAS, marker-assisted selection, fine mapping, and genomic selection. This issue will provide a good picture of the state-of-the-art and potential future of gene-by-environment interactions
Dr. Yuan-Ming Zhang
Dr. Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia
Dr. Shibo Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gene-by-environment interactions
- phenotypic plasticity
- linkage mapping
- GWAS
- fine mapping
- genomic selection
- marker assisted selection
- genomics breeding
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