Frontiers in Reproduction and Disease Resistance of Horticultural Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 4707
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epigenetic regulation of sexual reproduction and viral responses in ornamental plants
Interests: berries breeding; biotechnological approaches for the genetic improvement; fruit tree crops; cisgenesis and RNAi disease resistance; fruit quality and nutritional profile
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Interests: interaction between ornamental plant and pathogen; defense mechanism of ornamental plants against pathogens; disease-resistance breeding of ornamental plants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Horticultural plants accompany human beings daily, offering fibers, vitamins, and other different kinds of nutrients in our diet, as well as decorating our surroundings with a tremendous variety of colors and shapes. To face the need of horticultural products with the increasing worldwide population and demand for higher quality, knowledge which improves breeding is imperative. As essential parts of the field, understanding the underlying mechanisms of reproduction and disease resistance would facilitate the germplasm enhancement of horticultural plants.
In this Special Issue of Plants, we will highlight contributions discussing plant and pathogen interaction, defense response, resistance mechanism and breeding, sterility and fertility, hybridization barriers and the reproduction development of horticultural plants, among other related topics.
Prof. Dr. Zhenxing Wang
Prof. Dr. Bruno Mezzetti
Dr. Ye Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant and pathogen interaction
- resistance mechanism
- defense response
- resistance breeding
- sterility and fertility
- reproduction development
- hybridization barriers
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