Omics Interventions for Improving Crop Productivity and Stress Tolerance

Dear Colleagues,

In the era of emerging climate changes, crops face various problems in their adaptation, leading to the deterioration of the quantity and quality of the produce. Climate change also leads to the co-evolution and migration of pathogens, posing a major threat to crop production. Significant strides are being made toward the development of superior, high-yielding, and stress-tolerant cultivars. Advances in omics technology have made it easy. To date, various QTLs for important traits in many crops have been tagged. NGS-based approaches also play an important role in crop improvement, and many genome sequences have already been decoded to understand the structure and function of the target genes. The integration of these approaches will accelerate molecular breeding programs for improving crop productivity and stress tolerance.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to:

Genomics and transcriptomics interventions for crop improvement;

Hormonal regulations modulating plant growth and stress tolerance;

Marker-assisted breeding for gene introgression;

Decoding genomes and metadata analysis;

Analysis of gene families for growth development and stress tolerance.

Dr. Awdhesh Mishra
Dr. Chandra Bhan Yadav
Guest Editors

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• omics technology
• genomics
• transcriptomics
• metabolomics
• marker-assisted breeding
• plant growth
• stress tolerance