Advances in Vegetable Crop Breeding: From Functional Gene Discoveries to Enhanced Productivity, Stress Tolerance, and Nutritional Quality
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Genetics; Brassica crops; Molecular design breeding; Genomics; Omics
Interests: Genetics; Gene function;Cytology; Clubroot disease resistance
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Special Issue Information
Vegetable crops are integral to global food systems, underpinning dietary nutrition (e.g., vitamins, dietary fiber, and bioactive compounds), rural livelihood security, and both agricultural and economic resilience. The emergence of high-throughput sequencing technologies has revolutionized vegetable genomics, advancing the field beyond single-genome assembly toward pan-genome construction, functional gene mapping, and epigenetic regulation—laying a robust foundation for modern crop improvement.
This Special Issue seeks to capture the dynamism of vegetable crop research, encompassing advances from genome-scale discoveries (e.g., novel gene loci, evolutionary insights) to practical breeding breakthroughs. By synthesizing studies across diverse vegetable families (e.g., Brassicaceae, Solanaceae, Cucurbitaceae) and integrating innovative technologies, it provides a critical resource for researchers, plant breeders, and agricultural policymakers committed to enhancing the productivity, stress tolerance, and nutritional quality of vegetable crops.
Prof. Dr. Yong Pyo Lim
Dr. Wenxing Pang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetable crops
- functional gene mapping
- stress response
- mechanism
- molecular breeding
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