Advances and Applications of Genetic Transformation Techniques for Enhanced Trait Integration in Field Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wheat; genetic transformation; gene editing; tissue and chromosome engineering; molecular breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, genetic transformation techniques have rapidly been developed with the assistance of developmental regulators (WUS2, BBM, GRF-GIF, WOX5, etc.) and cut dip budding (CDB), which greatly help the increasing of transformation efficiency and the overcoming of genotype dependence limitations in the genetic transformation of many plant species. At the same time, a great number of transgenic plant lines and genome-edited mutants obtaining new traits have been generated using modified genetic transformation techniques in various field crops. To report the achievements on the development of genetic transformation techniques and their application in breeding new germplasm with enhanced trait integration in major field crops, we organize this Special Issue in this journal to promote the modified progress of these plants for variety breeding. We welcome research articles and featured mini-reviews on innovations in transformation systems and the development of genetic resources with modified or enhanced traits via genetic transformation and genome editing in wheat, rice, maize, soybean, barley, potato, tomato, cabbage, and other important field crops.
Prof. Dr. Xingguo Ye
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetic transformation
- genome editing
- trait improvement
- genetic enrichment
- field crops
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