Sweet Potato Genetics and Genomics: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) provides many unique advantages over other crops, such as adequate germplasm and genomic data resources, strong resistance, extensive adaptability, high and stable yields, excellent and balanced nutritional components, and diversified applications. It has been widely employed as a model system to solve an increasing variety of biological issues. However, compared with staple crops, such as rice, wheat, and maize, the biological research of sweet potato is significantly lagging behind, which seriously limits its molecular breeding and genetic improvement. This Special Issue therefore aims to integrate recent attempts to make significant progress in sweet potato biology by expanding knowledge in various research fields, including, but not limited to, biotic and abiotic stress response, tuberous root development, pigment synthesis and metabolism, biotechnology innovation, etc. The implementation of genetics, molecular biology, functional genomics, and omics studies (such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenetics) is feasible. In this research topic, we intend to enrich sweet potato research by collecting all article types accepted in Genes, including original research articles, reviews, and mini-reviews related to sweet potato biology.

Dr. Mingku Zhu
Dr. Shaopei Gao
Dr. Lifei Huang
Guest Editors

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