Advances in Crop Genetics, Quality, and Stress Responses
A Special Issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729) belonging to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 February 2027 | Viewed by 147
Editors
Interests: breeding; genetics; marker-assisted selection; wheat
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crop production is continuously threatened by diverse abiotic and biotic stresses, which severely limit grain yield and quality worldwide. Deciphering the genetic basis of agronomic traits and stress tolerance has become a core priority for modern molecular breeding. Rapid advances in genomics, GWAS, transcriptomics, and gene functional validation have greatly accelerated the identification of elite genes and molecular regulatory networks, laying a solid foundation for developing stress-resilient crop varieties with improved quality.
This Special Issue aims to collect cutting-edge studies on crop genetics, grain quality formation, and plant stress responses, which fully matches the research scope of Life focusing on molecular biology and plant science. We welcome high-quality original research papers, short communications, and comprehensive reviews that uncover genetic mechanisms in major cereal and food crops.
The potential topics include, but are not limited to:
(1) Genetic dissection of yield and quality-related traits using GWAS, QTL mapping, and pan-genome analysis;
(2) Molecular regulatory pathways of salt, drought, and nutrient stress responses in crops;
(3) Functional characterization of key genes governing stress tolerance and grain quality;
(4) Genomic-assisted breeding and elite germplasm innovation.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.
Dr. Jindong Liu
Dr. Dengan Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop genetics
- abiotic stress
- grain quality
- genomics
- QTL
- molecular breeding
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