As the second most important determinant of the agricultural economy, next only to cereals in field crops, oil crops provide various products for human consumption and industrial purposes. Oil crops include oil palm, soybean, oilseed rape, peanut, sunflower, etc. Crops can cope with various environmental stresses, both biotic and abiotic, by modulating different physiological processes, which inevitably affect the yield and quality of crop products. Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the area of genetics, genomics, and molecular biology of oil crops, there is still a gap between oil crops and crops with advanced research levels, such as rice and maize. With the continuing growth in worldwide demand for oil products, further investigations are urgently needed to understand the genetic and molecular basis of physiological processes regulating agronomically important traits in oil crops, such as oil yield and quality formation, as well as their resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses.
Technological advances in biotechnology and genome sequencing have greatly accelerated the research progress in crops. The main goal of the Research Topic is to bring together the latest breakthrough in genetics, genomics, and molecular biology of oil crops, in particular those that expand our understanding of different physiological activities related to the yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops. We encourage the research advances from different oil crops, including oil palm, soybean, oilseed rape (canola), peanut, sunflower, sesame, and other crops offering oil purposes.
Original Research Articles, Reviews, Comments, Perspectives, and Methods are welcome for submission on the following subthemes:
• Molecular mechanisms of physiological activities that affect the yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops based on ‘omics’ approaches.
• Identification of qualitative or quantitative traits related to yield, quality, and resistance using genetic mapping methods, including mapping, genome-wide association (GWAS) analysis, and bulked segregation analysis (BSA).
• Effect evaluation of environmental factors and cultivation techniques on the yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops, and the dissection of underlying physiological activities.
• Functional analysis of genes enhancing the traits related to yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops, new technologies like CRISPR editing application in this area.
As the second most important determinant of the agricultural economy, next only to cereals in field crops, oil crops provide various products for human consumption and industrial purposes. Oil crops include oil palm, soybean, oilseed rape, peanut, sunflower, etc. Crops can cope with various environmental stresses, both biotic and abiotic, by modulating different physiological processes, which inevitably affect the yield and quality of crop products. Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the area of genetics, genomics, and molecular biology of oil crops, there is still a gap between oil crops and crops with advanced research levels, such as rice and maize. With the continuing growth in worldwide demand for oil products, further investigations are urgently needed to understand the genetic and molecular basis of physiological processes regulating agronomically important traits in oil crops, such as oil yield and quality formation, as well as their resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses.
Technological advances in biotechnology and genome sequencing have greatly accelerated the research progress in crops. The main goal of the Research Topic is to bring together the latest breakthrough in genetics, genomics, and molecular biology of oil crops, in particular those that expand our understanding of different physiological activities related to the yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops. We encourage the research advances from different oil crops, including oil palm, soybean, oilseed rape (canola), peanut, sunflower, sesame, and other crops offering oil purposes.
Original Research Articles, Reviews, Comments, Perspectives, and Methods are welcome for submission on the following subthemes:
• Molecular mechanisms of physiological activities that affect the yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops based on ‘omics’ approaches.
• Identification of qualitative or quantitative traits related to yield, quality, and resistance using genetic mapping methods, including mapping, genome-wide association (GWAS) analysis, and bulked segregation analysis (BSA).
• Effect evaluation of environmental factors and cultivation techniques on the yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops, and the dissection of underlying physiological activities.
• Functional analysis of genes enhancing the traits related to yield, quality, and resistance of oil crops, new technologies like CRISPR editing application in this area.