Genomewide SNP Identification and Use for Resolving Population Structure and GWAS of Traits of Interest—3rd 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 July 2026 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GWAS; QTL mapping of key traits; population genetics; functional genomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the merging of methodologies for developing reduced-representation/resequencing libraries, RNAseq, next-generation sequencing and bioinformatic approaches have recently emerged for identifying genome-wide SNPs and insertions/deletions (InDELs) for resolving population structure, along with genome-wide association studies (GWASs), QTL/eQTL mapping, and bulk segregant analysis, which can be used to identify genomic regions of interest. These reduced-representation and resequencing methods are currently greatly impacting the study of novel and existing genetic variation for various crop-improvement programs, as well as model and non-model plants of ecological significance. In Volume III, we expand the scope of functional genomics involving RNAseq and qRT-PCR validations for targeting mapped traits of interest.
This Special Issue will publish high-quality research papers, as well as review articles addressing recent studies involving SNP mining, resolving population structures, haplotype networking, and GWAS as emerging tools for plant breeding and ecology research. Original, high-quality contributions that have not yet been published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are desired.
Prof. Dr. Umesh K. Reddy
Dr. Subramanyam Chinreddy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SNP mining and InDELs
- population structure analysis
- GWAS
- high-density QTL mapping
- haplotype networking
- genomics of wild crop relatives
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