Evolutionary Genomics of Crops and Its Wild Relatives
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 June 2021) | Viewed by 8811
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Dear Colleagues,
Wild relatives of crop plants are recognized as a fundamental resource for agricultural activity. Traditional landraces have been widely sampled and stored in germplasm collections over previous centuries, but collection programs for the respective wild plants have been planned only recently. Domesticated and wild forms have been influenced by human activity over thousands of years and signatures of their activity have been deeply impressed in plant genomes. Both forms are an essential source for genomic studies to unravel the domestication process. Phylogenetic traits can be tracked by genetic and genomic analysis, observing the variations accumulated over time. Moreover, genomic analyses permit to obtain important information about the time frames and geographic places of domestication areas, the involvement of putative secondary domestication events and past and present selection pressures. Although the process of domestication is a fundamental topic of plant evolution, other interesting evolutionary aspects can be observed such as the demographic history, introgression events, hybridization with other species, as well as epigenetic relationships. Moreover, bioprospecting offers new possibilities to reveal unexplored bioactive molecules in crop plants and their wild relatives.
Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Grassi
Dr. Paolo Boccacci
Dr. Maurizio Rossetto
Guest Editors
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