Molecular Marker-Assisted Technologies for Crop Breeding—2nd Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 53
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Interests: genetics; molecular breeding science
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute your original research, review articles, or short communications to our Special Issue, “Molecular Marker-Assisted Technologies for Crop Breeding—2nd Edition.”
As global agricultural systems face increasing demands for productivity, resilience, and sustainability, the integration of molecular markers into crop breeding has emerged as a powerful tool to accelerate the development of improved crop varieties. This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances, methodologies, and applications of molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS), genome-wide association studies (GWAS), marker-assisted backcrossing, QTL mapping, and genomic selection in crop improvement programs.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- The development and application of molecular markers (SSR, SNP, AFLP, etc.);
- Marker-assisted selection and backcrossing strategies;
- Genomic tools for trait discovery and genetic diversity assessment;
- High-throughput genotyping and phenotyping platforms;
- Integration of MAS with traditional breeding approaches;
- Case studies on the successful deployment of marker-assisted technologies in breeding programs;
- Advances in bioinformatics and data analysis for MAS.
We believe your expertise in this field would make a valuable contribution to this issue. Submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process, and selected papers will be published in Plants, a leading journal in the field of plant sciences and crop genetics.
Dr. Ju Kyong Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crops
- landrace accession
- agroecological zone
- SSR marker
- genetic diversity
- population structure
- UPGMA dendrogram
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