Hybrid Breeding in Self-Pollinating Crops: Can It Confront Global Climate Change?
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 14
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Interests: cereal breeding and genetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Hybrid vigor (heterosis) is particularly pronounced in outcrossing crops such as those in the Brassicaceae family, but it is also observed to a practical degree in self-pollinating crops. In fact, it has been reported that yield heterosis in hybrid wheat can exceed 20% compared to pure-line parental varieties. While hybrid varieties of self-pollinating vegetables in the Solanaceae family, such as tomatoes, eggplants and bell peppers, are widely used, there are not many hybrid varieties of self-pollinating crops. Even in the case of hybrid varieties within the Solanaceae family, collecting F1 seeds involves a system of hand-pollination, which is not an efficient breeding system. Successful cases of hybrid rice utilizing male sterility in China appear to be extremely rare. In this Special Issue, we invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to the breeding of hybrid varieties of self-pollinating crops, including hybrid vigor and male sterility. We sincerely hope that this Special Issue will pave the way for the development of hybrid varieties of self-pollinating crops.
Dr. Koji Murai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hybrid breeding
- hybrid vigor (heterosis)
- self-pollinating crops
- global climate change
- drought stress
- heat stress
- salinity stress
- breeding
- genetic resources
- genetics
- agronomy
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