Plant Gene Families and Functional Regulation in Crop Development

Dear Colleagues,

Plant gene families play a central role in regulating growth, development, and stress responses in crops. With rapid advances in genomics and functional genomics, numerous gene families have been identified across major crop species. However, understanding how these gene families function coordinately to regulate complex agronomic traits remains a key challenge.

This Special Issue, “Plant Gene Families and Functional Regulation in Crop Development”, invites high-quality original research and review articles exploring the structural organization, evolutionary dynamics, expression regulation, and functional mechanisms of plant gene families. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Genome-wide identification and phylogenetic analysis of gene families in crop plants;
• Functional characterization of gene families involved in yield, flowering, root development, and organ formation;
• Transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and epigenetic regulation of gene family members;
• Gene family responses to abiotic and biotic stresses during crop development;
• Use of CRISPR/Cas9, overexpression, or RNAi to study gene family function;
• Comparative genomics and synteny analysis of gene families across species.

We welcome submissions from researchers working on model plants as well as staple and orphan crops. By bringing together diverse studies on gene family biology, this Special Issue will contribute to a systems-level understanding of crop development and provide potential targets for molecular breeding. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Muhammad Mobeen Tahir
Dr. Minjie Qian
Guest Editors

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