From Genome to Phenome: A Bridge to Accelerate Adaptation of Crops to Abiotic Stress
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 (25 April 2023) | Viewed by 7499
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant molecular breeding; crop improvement; cereal genetic and genomics; transcriptomics; gene expression; phytohormones; abiotic stress tolerance; plant-environment interaction; cereal phenomics
Interests: plant molecular breeding; crop improvement; cereal genetic and genomics; transcriptomics; lipidomics; phytohormones; abiotic and biotic stress tolerance; plant–environment interaction; cereal phenomics; acceleration of cereal and legume breeding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants as sessile organisms are permanently exposed to environmental stimuli. Adverse conditions have become accentuated by global warming, shrinking water supply, and drought intensification. Soil salinity and acidity, air pollution, and accumulation of toxic metals in the environment have escalated over the years. In addition, global demands for increased plant production are growing rapidly. Altogether, effective crop adjustments for intensive production under a changing climate must be faced by scientists. In recent decades, progress in molecular methods has facilitated the in-depth investigation of plant genomes, constituting the potential to improve crop breeding processes. Next-generation sequencing and modern phenotyping techniques represent a powerful tool to explore the genetic background of plant phenotype determination under constrained conditions. Furthermore, advanced omics approaches such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have provided new knowledge about mechanisms of plants’ adjustment to the changing environment.
Hence, this Special Issue will cover crop response to any abiotic stress at various levels, i.e., molecular/biochemical/physiological, considered in relation to plant phenotypic plasticity. Papers centered on the association between crop genotypic and phenotypic variation will be of interest. Studies about stress-responsive genes and their effect on crop behavior, molecular breeding, and development of new genetic resources of crops as well as modern phenotyping approaches that may lead to crops’ improvement will also be welcomed.
Dr. Krzysztof Mikołajczak
Prof. Anetta Kuczyńska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molecular breeding
- modern automated phenotyping
- functional phenotyping
- linkage analysis
- QTL
- GWAS
- NGS
- omics approaches
- abiotic stress tolerance
- crop improvement
- climate change
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