Trees Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Breeding
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2025) | Viewed by 2271
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Interests: tree genetics and genomics; genus Camellia; non-coding RNA; genome evolution; plant domestication
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Dear Colleagues,
Thanks to the development of gene sequencing technology, the field of tree biology research is rapidly advancing, with profound impacts on wood safety, economic forestry, ecology, and the mitigation of climate change. An increasing number of researchers have released genomic data related to tree species, enabling us to utilize their omics data to mine key regulatory genes of tree growth, development, and secondary metabolism, thereby facilitating molecular genetic improvement. Considering the pivotal role that trees will play in the future, our understanding of the molecular basis of forest growth, development, and secondary metabolism lags far behind other model plants.
This Special Issue, entitled "Trees Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Breeding", aims to supplement the current lack of knowledge on the molecular basis of tree growth, development, and secondary metabolism. It covers various aspects of woody plant growth, development, and secondary metabolism, with a focus on using multi-omics research to reveal the key regulatory genes associated with woody plant growth, development, and secondary metabolism, including natural growth, artificial management (such as pruning, fertilization, irrigation, etc.), climate and environmental change, and other studies on growth, development, and secondary metabolism; this also includes research on the function of forest genes and transgenic technology.
We invite researchers to contribute articles that provide an overview of recent advances related to "Trees Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Breeding". This Special Issue welcomes the submission of research-oriented papers reviews related to this topic. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Mingyan Wang is the Guest Editor Assistant, and Mingyan Wang will help manage this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Hengfu Yin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trees genetics
- genomics
- molecular
- regulatory mechanism
- genetic improvement
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