Genetic Diversity for Crop Improvement
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2016) | Viewed by 35410
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop genetic diversity; marker assisted selection; underutilised crops; crop breeding; genome evolution
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Interests: capacity development; agricultural biodiversity for food and nutritional security; climate change and crop adaptation; food environments; sustainable food system; genetic analysis of crop traits and breeding; agriculture-environment-health nexus
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Interests: plant breeding; plant genetic resources; legumes; mung bean; Vigna; molecular breeding; QTL
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Interests: genetic regulation of traits; response to abiotic stress; comparative genetics; functional genomics; genetic diversity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The genetic and trait diversity available to a crop underpins any attempt at genetic improvement. That trait diversity may come from elite cultivars, from unimproved landraces or even from related species. While genetic modification will be one important tool to develop new crops to address the effects of climate change, this will still be in the context of strong conventional and advanced breeding programmes that produce new combinations of traits.
The need to improve staple crops, develop new crops and to investigate new agricultural systems is clear. The development of Next Generation Sequencing also represents one of a series of new valuable tools to begin to comprehensively evaluate the genetic diversity available to crop breeders, alongside new phenotyping and trait evaluation techniques.
This special issue invites contributions focused on the evaluation of crop genetic diversity (and associated trait diversity) with a focus on utilizing the available diversity in crop improvement programmes.
Dr. Sean Mayes
Prof. Festo Massawe
Dr. Prakit Sompta
Dr. Wai Kuan Ho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genetic diversity
- trait variation
- crop breeding
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