Functional Genomics and Stress Responses of Fruit Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Fruit Production Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: apple; abiotic stress; genetic improvement; transcriptional regulation; genomics
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Dear Colleagues,
As economically important crops, fruit trees are facing increasingly severe challenges from both abiotic (drought, salinity, extreme temperatures) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses, which significantly constrain their growth, yield, and fruit quality.
We systematically integrate cutting-edge research to address key scientific questions:
(1) Breakthrough applications of multi-omics approaches in the high-throughput mining of stress-resistant genes;
(2) The functional characterization of key stress-responsive genes and their regulatory networks;
(3) Dynamic epigenetic regulation mechanisms underlying stress memory;
(4) The precision breeding of stress-resistant germplasm using CRISPR/Cas9 and other next-generation gene editing technologies.
This Special Issue invites both research articles and reviews on functional genomics and stress responses in fruit trees, aiming to provide theoretical foundations and technical support for developing new cultivars with enhanced stress tolerance and superior quality.
Prof. Dr. Tuanhui Bai
Dr. Tianli Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit crops
- stress responses
- tolerance mechanisms
- multi-omics analysis
- epigenetic regulation
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