Genetics and Genomics of Aquatic Vegetables
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 1996
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquatic vegetables with abundant varieties, including lotus, Euryale ferox, water dropwort, arrowhead, Brasenia schreberi and others, constitute the important component of characteristic vegetables in China. Compared with major vegetable crops, research on the genetics and genomics of aquatic vegetables is sparce; thus, our understanding of their species origins, evolution and development control as well as the regulatory networks of important traits are limited. In recent years, with the rapid development and wide application of experimental technologies, such as omics, genetics and molecular biology, the research on aquatic vegetables has led to outstanding achievements in analyzing the origin and evolution, growth and development, quality formation, and stress responses of these plants. Therefore, understanding the genomics, genetics and mechanisms underlying the important agronomic traits of each species will greatly promote access to molecular breeding and the utilization of germplasm resources for aquatic vegetables.
To this end, this Special Issue invites research articles, reviews, and short communications on all aspects of the recent molecular biology research of aquatic vegetables. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: genetic analysis and improvements in breeding the important traits of aquatic vegetables, molecular function dissection, molecular marker development, gene regulation mechanisms, gene family evolution, gene expression regulation, and other studies of aquatic vegetables using high-throughput data.
Dr. Jiexia Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aquatic vegetables
- genetics
- evolution
- growth and development
- reproduction trait
- omics
- quality formation
- gene expression
- transcriptional regulation
- molecular marker
- function identification
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