Functional Genomics in Plant Disease Resistance
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 (1 December 2021) | Viewed by 3549
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant biotic stress; transcriptomics; metabolomics; ribosome profiling; functional genomics; patho-genomics; plant-microbe interaction; plant genetics and breeding
Interests: plant biotic–abiotic stress; plant systems biology; functional genomics; metabolomics; proteomics; plant–microbe interaction; plant tissue culture; genome editing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The burgeoning population, tremendous decline in cultivable land and resources and increasing food demands call for immediate attention to crop improvement. World food security requires more than a 50% increase in food production by 2030. This can be achieved only through crop improvement as the cultivable land and resources are limited.
In nature, crop plants are infected with pests and diseases which causes substantial economic losses. Worldwide, farmers lose 25% of their produce due to biotic stress. Development and cultivation of resistant varieties are the most viable and environmentally friendly options. To breed crop varieties with improved disease resistance requires the identification and functional characterization of genes that control important traits related to stress tolerance. Identification of genes and their functions can be achieved by two approaches, namely, forward and reverse genetics. Forward genetics is mainly based on transcriptomics, translatomics, proteomics metabolomics and association studies. Meanwhile, reverse genetics involves gene silencing/knockout or overexpression approaches such as transgenic overexpression, mutations, RNAi, genome editing and virus-induced gene silencing approaches. Functional genomics helps in candidate genes discovery and revealing their functions, thus facilitating successful utilization of resistance genes in developing disease-resistant varieties in crop plants.
From this perspective, the present Special Issue is designed to accept papers related to functional genomics in disease resistance focusing on gene discovery, functional characterization and deciphering disease resistance mechanisms.
Dr. Udaykumar Kage
Dr. Nancy Soni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pathology
- plant–microbe interaction
- biotic stress
- genomics
- functional genomics
- disease resistance
- resistance mechanisms
- resistance genes
