Advancements in Genetic Improvement of Stress Tolerance in Vegetable Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 1892
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vegetable; plant molecular biology; abiotic stress; biotic stress; genetic improvement
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Interests: small peptide; root development; abiotic stress; plant molecular biology
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Dear Colleagues,
Vegetable crops encompass numerous species that are major nutrient sources for humans, but their growth and development are constantly exposed to various abiotic and biotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, extreme temperature, nutrient deficiency, insects, and pathogens. To deal with those stresses, vegetable crops employ complex signaling cascades consisting of a number of stress-related genes and proteins, thus enabling rapid reactions to stress and facilitating adaptive growth and development. In addition, genomic research tools and sequencing technologies are widely used for exploring the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms underlying different developmental processes in vegetable crops, which will be of great significance for improving their yield and quality in the future.
The aim of this Special Issue on “Advancements in Genetic Improvement of Stress Tolerance in Vegetable Crops” is to present innovative studies on the development of new genomic and molecular techniques to improve the quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses of vegetable crops, and studies on the identification of new genes or specific alleles through multi-omics technologies and genomic research. This Special Issue also encourages articles describing in depth innovative molecular genetics research on agriculturally useful genes for the genetic improvement of vegetable crops.
We look forward to your excellent contributions to this Special Issue of Horticulturae.
Dr. Yong Zhou
Dr. Huibin Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetable crops
- crop resilience and quality
- abiotic and biotic stress
- molecular mechanism
- gene expression and function
- multi-omics technologies
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