Genetic Diversity, Germplasm Resources, and Biotechnologies Applications for Sustained Rice Improvement
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 2387
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice germplasm; genomics and genetics; genetic diversity; GWAS
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Dear Colleagues,
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important food crops in the world. Its cultivation area accounts for about 30% of the total area of food crops and the yield of rice accounts for more than 40% of the total food production. The rice genome has only 4.3 million base pairs, the genetic transformation system is mature, and it has the characteristics of synteny and collinearity with other gramineous plant genomes, making it a model plant for crop molecular genetics and genome research. With the completion of genome sequencing of rice and many other species, we have entered the post-genomic era from structural genomics, otherwise known as functional genomics. Rice functional genome research is aimed at the molecular regulatory network, formed by important agronomic traits, and is applied it to molecularly improve important agronomic traits. Based on the latest research methods of functional genomics, the molecular genetic mechanism regarding the multi-gene control of important agronomic traits was systematically studied to provide knowledge and technical guarantee for the improvement of crop varieties in China.
The editor encourages you to contribute research articles or comments to this project, including functional genomic studies of important agronomic traits in rice, crop population genomics based on high-throughput sequencing, and the applications and future potential of omics studies in crop breeding.
Dr. Yaolong Yang
Dr. Xu Qun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rice
- agriculture
- genome
- breeding
- diversity
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