Transcriptome Analysis and Marker Development in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Plants provide us with important sources of pharmaceuticals, food additives, flavors, and other industrial materials. Exploiting the diversity and functions of plants allows us to design new products related to the food, health and agricultural industries, as well as to improve plant resistance to environmental stresses. The study of transcriptome analysis and marker development has provided us with important tools for gene discovery and breeding. Recently, this research field has rapidly expanded, and significant progress has been made. This enables the cultivation, breeding and protection of plants through new technologies. This open-access Special Issue of Plants is devoted to publishing original research and review articles on studies of transcriptome analysis and marker development, particularly new discoveries, as well as the development and application of novel technologies.

Topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Applications of transcriptome analysis and marker development in plants;
• Single-cell transcriptomics in plant research;
• Spatial transcriptomics in plant research;
• Application of high-throughput sequencing technologies in transcriptome analysis and marker development;
• Databases associated with the transcriptome analysis and marker development;
• Novel technologies and strategies for transcriptome analysis and marker development;
• Genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, protoemic and metabolomic analysis of plants.

Dr. Deyou Qiu
Guest Editor

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