Vegetable Genetics and Genomics

Dear Colleagues,

Vegetables, as an indispensable non-staple type of food in people’s daily diet, provide a variety of essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, as well as special phytochemicals which are recognized as functional components for human nutritional balance or medicinal purposes. With the increase in population and dramatic climate change all around the world, there is an increasing demand from societies for a higher quantity and quality of major vegetables. In order to improve the production performance and product quality of vegetable crops effectively, it is a prerequisite to understand the genetic bases of important horticultural traits, quality characters, and stress tolerances and to reveal the crucial genes underlying these traits and their molecular regulation mechanisms for elite trait expression or beneficial component metabolism.

In the past decade, the rapid development of sequencing technologies has promoted great advances in genetics and genomics of vegetable crops. This Special Issue on “Vegetable Genetics and Genomics” welcomes the submission of review and research papers or short communications on the following topics: vegetable genome, comparative genome, and variome research; and genetic dissection of important breeding target traits of horticulture, quality and tolerance to biotic or abiotic stress, and discoveries of new key genes and their molecular regulation mechanisms for valuable traits or metabolic pathways through the advanced technologies of molecular genetics and multiple omics.  

Prof. Dr. Xixiang Li
Prof. Dr. Yunsong Lai
Guest Editors

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