Recent Analysis and Applications of Comparative and Functional Genomic on Horticultural Plants: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 3103
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant genome evolution; comparative genomics; gene family; RNA-seq; expression network; non-coding RNA; database construction
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Dear Colleagues,
Horticultural plants play critical roles in human daily life, which have important economic value, medicinal value and ornamental value. With the development of sequencing technology, genome sequencing of more and more horticultural plants has been completed. Moreover, the quality of the released genomes has been obviously improved due to the widely used of third-generation sequencing and Hi-C technology. These genomes provide rich resources for comparative and functional genomic studies in horticultural plants. Therefore, we organize this special issue 2nd Edition to collect relevant research articles to promote the application of omics data in horticultural crops.
This special issue will mainly collect articles from the following aspects, but not limited to these aspects. (a) Gene family analysis at a large-scale level or verified experimentally; (b) Plant genome and comparative genomic analysis; (c) Population evolution and GWAS analysis; (d) Mining and verifying key genes of important agronomic traits; (e) Gene regulatory network construction; (f) Omic resource database or tool development for horticultural plants.
Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Song
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- horticultural plants
- gene family
- comparative genomics
- genome evolution
- gene function
- gene expression
- database construction
- tool development
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