Unraveling Complex Traits and Developmental Pathways of Forest Trees
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Development and Morphogenesis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 609
Special Issue Editors
Interests: functional genomics; tree physiology; plant molecular biology; plant biotechnology
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Interests: functional genomics; floral development; plant sex differentiation; tree physiology; plant molecular biology
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Interests: functional genomics; secondary metabolism; abiotic stress tolerance; plant molecular biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest trees make a significant contribution to sustainability with renewable resources, forest foods, the supply of ecosystem services and the global economy. In the past 20 years, more and more tree genomes were deciphered, we have witnessed tremendous advances in forest tree physiology, genetics and molecular biology derived from genomic resources. With the rapid development of multi-omics technologies and novel bioinformatics tools, the complex traits and developmental pathways of forest trees has entered the functional genomics era. The challenge faced will be to identify genes underlying complex traits, to construct comprehensive gene regulatory networks, and to analyse the real functions of key candidate genes.
The present Special Issue entitled "Unraveling Complex Traits and Developmental Pathways of Forest Trees" encourages the submission of research articles as well as review papers dealing with new advances in functional genomics of forest trees. The main contents could be related to new perspectives in tree physiology, growth, development, and breeding, especially in wood formation and quality, floral development, sex differentiation, secondary metabolism, and stress tolerance. The topics covered include but are not limited to the identification and functional characterization of coding and non-coding features in genomes, multi-omics analysis, gene expression profiling, GWAS, genetic engineering approaches, such as transformation systems, or cutting-edge technologies, such as CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and synthetic biology, as well as phenomics, bioinformatics, and quantitative genetics.
As the Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to participate in this venture by contributing a paper on the topic of your choice within the broad area covered by "Unraveling Complex Traits and Developmental Pathways of Forest Trees". We look forward to receiving your contribution.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Forests.
Dr. Zhong Chen
Dr. Guochun Zhao
Dr. Shupei Rao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional genomics
- multi-omics analysis
- synthetic biology
- tree genetics and genomes
- regulation of gene expression
- gene regulatory networks
- tree breeding
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