Improvement of Vegetables Through Molecular Breeding in a Changing Climate

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change poses significant challenges to agriculture, impacting crop yields, resilience, and nutritional quality. Molecular breeding, also known as molecular-assisted breeding, is a promising approach to developing crops which are more resilient to climate change. Molecular breeding can assist in this direction by identifying traits that are tolerant to climate change and selecting desired traits at the molecular level, thus leading to the faster development of climate-resilient varieties. When integrated with other innovative technologies, both at the tissue or single-cell level, such as CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, RNA interference (RNAi), and synthetic biology, this can further enhance crop resilience to climate change. Overall, molecular breeding offers a powerful toolset for developing climate-resilient crop varieties that can sustainably meet the challenges of a changing climate while ensuring global food security.

In this Special Issue, articles (original research papers, reviews, opinions, perspectives, and methods) that focus on vegetable molecular breeding, including germplasm resources, genome, evolution, development, genetics, stress, fruit quality, nutrition, cultivation, and postharvest, at all levels are most welcome.

Dr. Christos Noutsos
Guest Editor

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• vegetable breeding
• molecular breeding
• crop yields
• climate change
• vegetable crop