Advances in Plant Mutagenesis Research
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2019) | Viewed by 55025
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Interests: genomics; genome editing; genetic regulation of plant disease; soybean seed composition
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Dear Colleagues,
Induced mutagenesis, one of the most efficient tool for the crop improvement, has been utilized extensively to create genetic variation for economically important traits. Induced mutagenesis has also been proven to be a convenient tool for the identification of key regulatory genes and molecular mechanism involved in the trait development. Conventionally, the induced mutagenesis is performed by means of physical, chemical, and insertional mutagen treatment methods. Besides achieving numerous benefits, these methods are less preferred due to random and slow process. In addition, localization of casual mutation using the conventional methods is tedious and costly. However, due to the recent advancements in next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques, detection of millions of mutations in short period of time has become convenient and cost efficient. Several mutation mapping approaches utilizing NGS such as MutMap, MutChromSeq and whole genome sequencing based mapping have been recently developed. The cost-effectiveness and high applicability make these approaches a choice of method to identify desired genes in lesser time. Furthermore, induced mutagenesis coupled with whole genome sequencing has provided a robust platform for forward and reverse genetic applications. Apart from the advances in mutation mapping, excellent tools have been recently invented to induce at precise location in the genome. Increasing availability of whole genome sequence information for large number of crops have enabled target specific genome editing techniques such as ZFNs (Zinc Finger Nucleases), transcription activator like effector nucleases (TALENS), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated9 (Cas9) endonuclease. The CRISPR/Cas9 has instigated paradigm shift in the entire biology field including crop science. The special issue of Plants will highlight the advances in mutagenesis techniques, high-throughput mutation mapping, identification of novel genes using mutagenesis approaches and mutation breeding efforts.
Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh
Dr. Juhi Chaudhary
Dr. Humira Sonah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mutation mapping
- MutMap
- MutChromSeq
- induced mutagenesis
- genome-editing
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