5Gs in Crop Genetic and Genomic Improvement: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Global warming will lead to extreme weather, including floods, droughts, cold damage, high temperature and other disasters. Crop yields and quality will suffer greatly from these extreme weather events. In facing these threats, traditional breeding systems cannot create sufficient crop improvement to meet demands. So far, genetic and genomic research have entered 5G stages (1G: genome sequencing and assembly; 2G: germplasm characterized at genomic and agronomic levels; 3G: gene function analysis; 4G: genomic breeding strategies; 5G: gene editing technology). The recent advances in 5G, including crop sequencing, phenomics and multiple omics analysis, have greatly promoted crop breeding.

This Special Issue focuses on the 5G in crop genetic and genomic improvement including but not limited to crop gene functional analysis, crop proteome and metabolism research, crop GWAS analysis and epigenetics regulation in crop breeding. We welcome the submission of reviews and research articles. We especially encourage the submission of original papers that use gene editing technology for crop breeding.

Dr. Xinjie Shen
Guest Editor

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• crop gene functional analysis
• crop protemics
• crop metabonomics
• new crop breeding methods
• crop GWAS analysis
• crop gene edit technology
• crop gene epigenetic modification