Functional Genomics and Comparative Genomics Analysis in Plants, 4th Edition
A special issue of Current Issues in Molecular Biology (ISSN 1467-3045). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1256
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the first plant genome, Arabidopsis thaliana, was published in December 2000, over 1000 plant genomes representing different plant species and subspecies have been sequenced and published. With the development of sequencing technology, an increasing number of omics datasets have been released, such as pan-genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics. It is important to highlight that the rapid accumulation of omics datasets has greatly promoted the development of plant science, especially crop genetics and breeding. In recent years, many bioinformatic tools have been developed for omics analyses; however, there are still many challenges that remain, from the construction of complex plant genomes to multi-omics analyses. Hence, more advanced algorithms, more powerful pan-genome analysis tools, and more comprehensive databases still need to be developed.
Polyploidy, heterozygosity, and large genomes in plants are still the main obstacles to plant genome sequencing and assembly; we believe that future studies regarding omics analyses in plants can make progress by incorporating more advanced technologies. Therefore, we organized this Special Issue, ‘Functional Genomics and Comparative Genomics Analysis in Plants, 3rd Edition’, to help us better understand the plant genome, gene function, and their evolution, as well as to provide a resource for decoding the molecular mechanisms of complex agronomic traits.
I am pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue. Research papers, up-to-date review articles, and commentaries are all welcome.
You may read the publications in three volumes of this Special Issue here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cimb/special_issues/LBJL2665KM
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cimb/special_issues/Comparative_Genomics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cimb/special_issues/JR24B11C29
Prof. Dr. Quan Zou
Dr. Ran Su
Dr. Qiangguo Jin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- de novo genome sequencing
- pan-genomic analyses
- genome re-sequencing
- GWAS analyses
- RNA-seq
- metabolomics
- gene family analyses
- plant evolutionary analyses
- bioinformatics
- database
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