Germplasm Resources, Fruit Cultivation and Biotechnology Application in Fruit Breeding
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 (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 434
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biotechnology; small berry; fruit; genetic breeding; function
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: blueberry; blackberry; germplasm resources; breeding; efficient cultivation; fruit processing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: blueberry; blackberry; biotechnology; cultivation technique; fruit quality control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Excellent cultivars and efficient cultivation techniques are the foundation of high-quality and yielding fruit trees. In recent years, breeding technologies such as transgenics, gene editing, and molecular markers have developed rapidly, significantly improving breeding efficiency and variety improvement. The cultivation mode of fruit trees also tends to be diversified, transitioning from the traditional open field cultivation mode to the coexistence of rain protection cultivation, facilities to promote early cultivation, soilless cultivation, and other modes. This Special Issue focuses on the collection, preservation, evaluation, and utilization of fruit tree germplasm resources, technical research on pruning, and environmental control such as temperature, light, water, fertilizer, etc. It also focuses on the pest and disease control of fruit trees under different cultivation modes, the regulatory mechanism of fruit quality formation, and the application of biotechnology in the research of fruit breeding, outlining the latest research results of fruit tree workers in these fields, which will serve as technical references for the cultivation of new fruit tree varieties, promote academic exchanges, and facilitate the sustainable development of fruit tree improvement work.
Dr. Yaqiong Wu
Prof. Dr. Weilin Li
Dr. Haiyan Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit tree
- germplasm resources
- cultivation techniques
- biotechnology
- growth and development
- fruit quality
- regulation mechanisms, selection and breeding
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