Genetic Modification of Plant Cell Wall and Bioenergy Crop Breeding
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2025) | Viewed by 225
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant cell wall; transcriptional regulation; resistance; bioenergy; plant functional genomics; omics big data
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Dear Colleagues,
Plant cell walls play diverse and important roles in plant growth, morphogenesis, stress, disease and lodging resistance, and bioenergy production. Over the past few decades, due to the great progress made in plant genetics and genomics, significant achievements have been made in cell wall biosynthesis, assembly, and architecture, as well as cell wall regulation and signaling. However, how to genetically modify plant cell walls for improving crop architechture, resistance, and increasing efficient utilizations of crop straw is still an important scientific issue and worthy of further study. Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on the advances of genetic modification of plant cell walls and bioenergy crop breeding. We are looking for original research and review articles and reviews on all relevant topics, consisting of the following:
- New functional genes involved in cell wall synthesis and regulation;
- New technologies used to analyze cell wall structure, or select elite energy crops;
- Cell wall modification in plant architecture;
- Cell wall modification in plant lodging resistance;
- Cell wall modification in plant stress resistance;
- Cell wall modification in plant disease resistance;
- Cell wall modification in biomass enzymatic saccharification;
- The molecular interactive mechanism between plant cell walls and microorganisms.
Prof. Dr. Leiming Wu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant cell wall genes
- genetic modification
- cell wall synthesis
- cell wall regulation network
- cell wall structure
- cell wall function
- stress resistance
- lodging resistance
- disease resistance
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