Crop Stress Biology and Molecular Breeding: 5th Edition
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: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 510
Special Issue Editor
2. Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Interests: crop genetics and biotechnology; molecular interaction between crop and pathogen; gene mining and function identification; molecular breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
Biotic and abiotic stresses limit improvements in the variety and cultivation regulation of crops such as rice, corn, sorghum, wheat, cotton, rape, peanut, soybean, sugarcane and beet, and thus seriously restrict the corresponding industrial developments. However, the response of crops to these stresses remains unclear. It is therefore crucial to focus our research on crop stress biology and molecular breeding through genetic, genomics, molecular biology and other approaches. Current studies in this field seek to reveal the biological basis and processes of important crop traits, including genomics, genes and gene networks; to elucidate the signal transduction pathway of crop stress responses and their interaction with corresponding stress factors; to elaborate upon the adaptation mechanisms of crops in response to their environment (stress); and to discover and identify the key genes and interacting proteins that regulate the formation of traits or adapt to the environment. The exploration of these areas will no doubt reveal gene elements or targets that can be utilized for the genetic improvement of important agronomic traits and assist in enhancing crop characteristics or even creating novel germplasms.
This Special Issue, entitled “Crop Stress Biology and Molecular Breeding: 5th Edition”, welcomes original research and review papers that present biological process analyses of important crop traits, crop gene cloning and functional identification, the screening of linkage markers for crop target traits, and all other related processes. We also welcome the submission of papers that detail the bioinformatics tools and databases used for research regarding crop stress biology and molecular breeding.
This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Dr. Youxiong Que and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Qibin Wu (National Key Laboratory for Tropical Crop Breeding, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Sanya/Haikou, 572024/571737, China).
Prof. Dr. Youxiong Que
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biotic and abiotic stress
- variety improvement
- crop stress biology
- molecular breeding
- biological basis
- signal transduction pathway
- agronomic traits
- excellent germplasm
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