Genomic Strategies for Genetic Resources Characterization to Face the New Challenges of Wheat 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 (25 April 2022) | Viewed by 4093
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diversity in plant genetic resources (PGR); durum wheat breeding and genetics; genomic approaches to understand the genetic basis of complex traits
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Dear Colleagues,
Wheat is one of the most relevant staple crops on earth since it is considered an important source of components that are essential or beneficial for human health.
Today, the connectivity between wheat and climate is an inevitable factor. In recent decades, climate changes have affected wheat production worldwide, raising major concerns for national and international food security. Fortunately, biodiversity significantly contributes to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Therefore, harnessing genetic resources in wheat is useful for developing genotypes resilient to climate change. To date, germplasm collections, including wild relatives and landraces, are a largely untapped source of desirable traits. In addition, recent advances in genomics are boosting the exploitation of the genetic diversity within wild relatives and landraces.
In this Special Issue, we welcome original articles and reviews (a reduced number) dealing with topics related to the use of the genetic resources of wheat to identify and/or develop new cultivars with superior alleles that can better adapt to climate change. Contributions highlighting the usefulness of germplasm collections using genomic approaches to improve the knowledge of desirable alleles for complex traits are welcome.
Dr. Francesca Taranto
Dr. Salvatore Esposito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wheat
- genetic resources
- climate changes
- genomics
- breeding
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