Advances in Brassica Crops Genomics and Breeding, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Following the tremendous success of the first edition of the Special Issue “Advances in Brassica Crops Genomics and Breeding” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/horticulturae/special_issues/Brassica_Genomics), a second edition is being launched.

Brassica crops include vegetable, oil, ornamental and condimental crops. Many of these, such as Chinese cabbage, cabbage and rapeseed, are cultivated worldwide as important crops. Brassica species are unique not only because of their economic importance, but also because of the domestication of extreme morphological types, such as leafy heading, root/stem enlarging and florescence heading in these species. Moreover, Brassica species represent several important polyploidization events, including paleo-, meso- and present polyploidization, which make them ideal as model species for the investigation of polyploidization.

With the fast progress we are making in sequencing technologies, a number of genomes of Brassica crops species have been sequenced and high-quality chromosome scale assemblies were obtained. Moreover, the large-scale resequencing data of germplasm resources have been made available in B. rapa, B. oleracea, and B. napus, which allows GWAS and domestication analysis in these important crops. These breakthroughs accelerated the investigation into the genomics of the complex Brassica genomes, the evolution of different Brassica species, functional revealing of important genes, and the molecular marker-assisted breeding of Brassica crops. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the recent advances in genomics and breeding in Brassica crops.

Prof. Dr. Xiaowu Wang
Dr. Jian Wu
Dr. Xu Cai
Guest Editors

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