New Breeding Technologies in Grasses
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 December 2022) | Viewed by 16465
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat; molecular marker; QTL analysis; genetic map; nitrogen metabolism; genetic trasformation; wheat quality; biotic stress tolerance
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Interests: plant breeding; genomics; marker-assisted selection; gene discovery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue will focus on recent advances in “New Breeding Technologies in Grasses”. We welcome novel research and reviews covering all related topics, including new marker technologies, fine mapping and gene discovery, speed breeding, cisgenesis, gene editing, reverse breeding, DNA methylation, and oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis (ODM). This issue will present a good picture of the state-of-the-art and potential future of breeding approaches.
Plant breeding is continuously evolving to develop new cultivars with the desired traits in the most efficient way. This progress has been particularly significant from the 1980s, when agriculture and plant breeding experienced a great impulse due to the development of the molecular biology. This advancement allowed plant scientists and breeders to understand the genetic basis of complex traits leading to their manipulation to produce improved cultivars. New plant-breeding techniques (NBT) report economic advantages as the time to obtain a new cultivar is reduced. Overall, the NBT permits breeders to introduce a target trait in an efficient and precise way, thus accelerating the selection procedure.
Prof. Dr. Agata Gadaleta
Dr. José Miguel Soriano
Guest Editors
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