Comparative and Functional Genomics of Land Plants

Dear Colleagues,

The biological system on the earth is, at its core, a flow of genetic information from the extinguished ancestors (source) to the extant species (branched targets), during which mutation, selection, gene flow and genetic drift act on to modify its elements and affect the translation to phenotypes. In plants, studying how gene and genome have evolved is critical for understanding the evolution of morphological and physiological diversities that is often in response to environmental shifts, and predicting prospective changes that plants may have in the face of new challenges.

With the increasing availability of plant genome sequences, much insight can be gleaned from comparative/population genomics approaches. This Special Issue focuses on plant evolutionary genomics and welcomes studies that use a combination of interdisciplinary approaches to understand key questions of plant evolution.

Dr. Chen Jiao
Dr. Xuepeng Sun
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diversity is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.