Vegetable Breeding, Genetics and Genomics

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, vegetable breeding has been driven by genomics and nextgen sequencing tools. NGS advanced breeding to the next level, as orphan crops or undestudied vegetable and fruit crops are currently being sequenced to generate gold-standard genome sequences, deep sequencing of germplasm collections and breeding populations. These resources were used to perform genomic-assisted selections, to identify deleterious alleles and targets for genome editing and, most importantly, to identify lines with the highest breeding value based on genomic predictions. In this Topic, we invite papers addressing the development and use of whole-genome sequncing, SNP or structural variants, genomewide association studies, genomic predictions, QTL analysis, methods for analysis, review articles related to this topic and methods to purge deleterious alleles from the crops, with special reference to vegetable crops.

Prof. Dr. Umesh K. Reddy
Prof. Dr. Padma Nimmakayala
Dr. Georgia Ntatsi
Topic Editors