Pre-Breeding in Crops

Dear Colleagues,

The challenges imposed by climate change and by requirements for quality and nutritional attributes of crops call for broadening the genetic base available to breeders to develop climate resilient, diseases and insect resistant and high-quality germplasm. Genetic resources, mainly landraces and crop wild relatives are special germplasm which can serve to introgress useful traits into elite germplasm through strengthening of pre-breeding efforts. From the existing literature, few examples of success of transferring genes from different genepools of crops are cited in case of wheat, tomatoes, rice and few other crops. This special issue will allow to share other successful efforts of pre-breeding for major crops and others and to show the impacts on the release of new varieties.

Dr. Ahmed Amri
Dr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.