Recent Advances in Plant Genomics and Transcriptome Analysis
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 32254
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green plants (Viridiplantae) comprise about 450,000 ~ 500,000 species that are found in many environments from aquatic to arid deserts to alpine tundra ecosystems. During the 500 million years of plant evolution, genomes underwent highly dynamic turbulences such as whole genome duplications, polyploidization, transposable elements expansions/reductions; as a result, extant plant genome sizes are highly variable, for example, 2,340-fold in land plants and 4,680-fold in chlorophyte and streptophyte green algae. Nevertheless, the variation of number of genes encoded is not extensive among plant taxa because only small fraction of the genome sequences are transcribed to be translated into proteins. Thus, transcriptomics is one of the most important topics of research filed in modern genomics to obtain inferences of gene functions and species relationships. The technical innovations of DNA sequencing and computing techniques allowed genomics researchers to sequence the transcriptomes from diverse plant taxa. The topic of the Special Issue of Plants is “Recent Advances in Plant Genomics and Transcriptome Analysis”, which aims to combine recent progresses in whole genome sequences, transcriptomics, phylogenomics, and cytogenomics in plants.
Dr. Nam-Soo Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- whole genome sequencing
- transcriptomics
- chromosomes
- phylogenomics
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