Focus on Plant Biotechnology 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: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant transformation; plant tissue cultures; genetic improvement of flax plants; improvement of plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; synthesis of secondary metabolites in plant cultures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Innovative biotechnology offers the possibility of producing or enhancing desired metabolites, e.g., antioxidants and pharmaceuticals, in plants. Plant biotechnology also generates plants with new properties, especially crops resistant to a changing climate. Climate change and global warming remain currently some of the greatest challenges for science and biotechnology.
This Special Issue aims to collect and present current papers (original research articles or review papers) related to plant biotechnology and molecular breeding, providing insight into the latest research in this field. This includes plant transformation, genetic engineering for plant improvement, crop plant improvement, genome editing, genome sequencing, functional genomics, and plant breeding.
Dr. Magdalena Wróbel-Kwiatkowska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetic engineering
- plant transformation
- applied biotechnology
- functional genomics
- crop plants
- crop improvement
- plant tissue cultures
- secondary metabolites
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