Molecular Breeding of Plants: From CRISPR/Cas9 to Transcriptomics and MABc
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 (20 April 2026) | Viewed by 5923
Editor
Interests: functional analysis of genes via CRISPR/Cas9; functional genomics; MABc (marker-assisted backcross); transcriptomics; plant biotechnology; molecular breeding in plants
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Dear Colleagues,
The study of cellular processes using novel genome-reading strategies, especially CRISPR/Cas9, is becoming increasingly feasible and powerful. Clustered regular interspersed short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNA (crRNA) is commonly used with the CRISPR-associated 9 (Cas9) nuclease to disrupt genes for loss-of-function assays. These mechanisms are approaches to introduce or reverse DNA fragments exhibiting polymorphisms in the genome using the error-prone nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) DNA repair pathway or the much less efficient homology directed repair (HDR) pathway. This report is interesting to see how gene editing, such as NHEJ and HDR, affects the expression of many other genes in the genome, as well as breeding mutations. Therefore, as a means to secure various genetic resources, we plan to accept papers presented on the development of new breeding programs using gene editing technology and various analysis methods. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) welcomes articles on reviews and findings.
Prof. Dr. Kwon-Kyoo Kang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- CRISPR/Cas9
- transcriptomics
- marker-assisted breeding
- genome editing
- plant genetics
- gene expression
- plant genomics
- quantitative trait loci (QTL)
- crop improvement
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