Utilizing Genetic Resources for Agronomic Traits Improvement: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 3343
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat; genetic resources; leaf rust; history of wheat; history of plant breeding
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Interests: wheat; genetic resources; quality; yield; core collections
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Interests: wheat; genetic resources; genetic diversity; breeding; QTL detection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the first and second Special Issue of Agronomy on “Utilizing Genetic Resources for Agronomic Traits Improvement”, we are pleased to announce the launch of the third edition of the Special Issue, in which the same subject and submission process will be maintained.
Plant genetic resources are raw materials for plant breeders. Landraces and wild relatives were and still are used to supply alleles to improve agronomic traits such as dwarfing, resistance to plant pathogenic agents (fungi, bacteria, viruses, parasitic plants, insects, etc.), tolerance to abiotic stresses (heat, drought, salinity, cold, etc.), longer shelf life in fruits, etc. For instance, dwarfing, photoperiod insensitivity, and resistance to rusts have been crucial traits for wheat breeding over the last 60 years. Repeated backcrossing and marker-assisted (and genomic) selection help breeders to transfer those alleles into elite cultivars. The need for new alleles in plant breeding is continuous since new virulent races of plant pathogens arise continuously, global warming requires heat-tolerant genotypes, and the demands of the market (mechanized harvesting, handling, quality, fruit size, etc.) are permanently evolving. In this Special Issue, we aim to publish papers related to the use of plant genetic resources for key agronomic traits in the current plant breeding scenario. The genotypes carrying those traits may be utilized in a breeding program for obtaining a new cultivar.
Dr. Fernando Martinez-Moreno
Dr. Magdalena Ruiz
Dr. Laura Pascual
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landraces
- wild relatives
- breeding for resistance to diseases and pests
- breeding for quality
- breeding for climate change
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