QTL Mapping of Seed Quality Traits in Crops

Dear Colleagues, 

Seeds of major crops contain many valuable compounds for the food and feed industry. Animal feed and human nutrition and health rely largely on seed proteins, amino acids, oils, fatty acids (palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic acids, etc.), sugars (glucose, galactose, sucrose, raffinose, etc.), isoflavones (daidzein, genistein, glycitein, etc.), vitamins, minerals, secondary metabolites, and other nutrients.  

Understanding the genetic basis of these beneficial compounds is very important, and many studies have been aimed at identifying and mapping QTL for these traits in the past 3 decades; however, most of these QTL regions are not well characterized, and candidate genes within these QTL regions are mostly unrevealed  

This Special Issue of Plants will focus on genetic and QTL mapping of seed quality traits in crops using both traditional mapping populations (recombinant inbred lines (RILs), F2, doubled haploid, etc.) and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Studies that also aim at identifying candidate genes within the identified QTL regions are most welcome.  

Prof. Dr. Abdelmajid Kassem
Guest Editor

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