Dear Colleagues,

With the advancement of science and technology, the application of high-throughput technologies is becoming more and more important in modern plant biology. High-throughput plant phenotyping, sequencing and data accumulation provides massive information to have deeper understanding of plant biology by the generation of biologically important data sets from plant germplasms or different plant spcies for crop improvement. For example, the applications of core collections of germplasms, spectral imaging from UAVs, multi-omics data integration, candidate genes selection of imporant traits, and molecular characterization have been increasing rapidly in recent years, generating high expectations for dealing with or linking genotypic and phenotypic data, and improving plant breeding but have also underscored some challenges. Challenges arising are often due to incomplete, incorrect, or not accessible, phenotypes, genotypes and -omics data, which limit the progress of crop improvement. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight the strategies, methods, approaches, and laboratory technologies to reduce the noise and uncertainties arising from the above issues. We welcome research from laboratories, germplams studies, multi-omics, and field trials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Developing novel approaches to establish core collection of plant germplasm; in particular, incomplete phenotypic and/or genotypic data are used.
2. Application of systematic approaches to multi-omics integration and systems biology in plants.
3. Spectral imaging from UAVs for important traits in plants.
4. Application of well-established and novel screening techniques to the plant, tissue, molecular biology and cellular landscape.

Dr. Chung-Feng Kao
Dr. Chan-Yen Kuo
Guest Editors

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• germplasm
• core collection
• multi-omics
• systems biology
• spectral imaging
• screening techniques