Cotton Multi-Omics and 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 (5 July 2023) | Viewed by 272
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the face of global climate change and the demand for high-quality fiber by the cotton textile industry, the creation and breeding of new germplasms with abiotic stress tolerance and high-quality and high-yield traits have become the central topics in cotton research. Meanwhile, with the rapid development of multi-omics research technology, a high number of cotton-gene functions have been acknowledged. However, the relationship between many gene functions with agronomic traits remains unclear, and the most important agronomic traits are regulated by multiple genes. Creating new germplasms with abiotic stress tolerance, with a high quality and high yield, is a systematic breeding project that cannot be solved by simply using any one gene. These bottlenecks have severely restricted the progress of cotton molecular breeding.
The aim of the current Special Issue is to collate the latest research on cotton gene functions, germplasm creations, and molecular breeding, which will provide a valuable insight into cotton cultivar breeding. We especially encourage the submission of research that utilizes multi-omics approaches to study cotton yield quality and stress responses.
Dr. Zhigang Meng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cotton
- germplasm
- abiotic stress
- yield
- quality
- multiplex omics
- molecular breeding
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