Genetic and Genomic Studies of Important Traits in Cereal 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 (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 7737
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat breeding; genetics and genomics; gene/QTL mapping; marker-/genomic-assisted selection; genomic prediction; association analyses
Interests: identification and characterization of disease resistance genes in wheat; mapping, cloning, and functional analysis of R genes; multi-omics approaches to understanding the molecular bases of disease resistance; molecular-marker-assisted breeding for enhancing disease resistance
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Interests: wheat molecular breeding; quantitative genetics; yield-related gene cloning; wheat genomics; genetic improvement of yield in wheat
Interests: wheat breeding; wheat and barley genetics and genomics; gene/QTL mapping; wheat wild hybridization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The production and end-use quality of cereal food crops require further improvement in order to meet the demands of the growing population worldwide. The technological advancements in genetics and genomics and related data analyses have led to great improvements in the last decade. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from various platforms including DNA genotyping-by-sequencing, skimseq, whole-genome sequencing, pan genomes, RNA sequencing, exome capture, and their related data analyses have advanced our knowledge in their applications in practical breeding. The goal of this Special Issue is to summarize some of the progress in genomic-assisted breeding for germplasm and cultivar development. We are soliciting papers describing advances in knowledge and progress in the application of these techniques, and how they can be used to improve crop production, resistance, and end-use quality through increasing the resilience of germplasm and cultivars.
Prof. Dr. Shuyu Liu
Dr. Shisheng Chen
Prof. Dr. Fa Cui
Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cereal crop
- resilience
- yield
- QTL mapping
- map-based cloning
- genomic-assisted breeding
- DNA sequencing
- exome capture
- genomic prediction
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