AUTHOR=Sallam Ahmed , Alqudah Ahmad M. , Baenziger P. Stephen , Rasheed Awais TITLE=Editorial: Genetic validation and its role in crop improvement JOURNAL=Frontiers in Genetics VOLUME=13 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.1078246 DOI=10.3389/fgene.2022.1078246 ISSN=1664-8021