Global climate changes, extreme weather fluctuations, and industrial-agricultural pollutions exacerbate environmental issues, including drought, salinization, flooding, extreme temperature, heavy metals pollution, mineral deficiency, etc. These have posed a tremendous challenge for food security and ecosystem functions. By 2050, global food requirements are estimated to increase by 70–110% to feed a rapidly growing population. In these contexts, it is urgent to seek new methods to guarantee food security and environmental management. The genes and pathways involved in environmental adaption and yield traits would be the focus for breeding forage and ecological plant species, whose growth and production are economically and ecologically key to the sustainability of human society. Multiple efforts to identify the candidate genes and pathways are valuable, e.g., multiple omics, genome assembly, GWAS, genome selection, gene editing, gene mapping, molecular breeding, etc. The pathways should be reported to be related to specific traits, supported by shreds of evidence.
The goal of this Research Topic is to enrich our understanding of the roles of the candidate genes and pathways underlying environmental adaption and yield traits in forage and other ecologically important plants.
In this Research Topic, we encourage the submission of original research articles, reviews and mini-reviews, methods, and opinions, covering but not limited to the following subtopics:
• Characterization of genes and pathways in abiotic stress responses
• Genome assembly and gene family related to abiotic stress responses and yield
• Gene editing to improve abiotic stress tolerance and plant yield
• GWAS studies in forage and ecologically important plants
• Molecular breeding in a population by integrating high-throughput genotyping
Global climate changes, extreme weather fluctuations, and industrial-agricultural pollutions exacerbate environmental issues, including drought, salinization, flooding, extreme temperature, heavy metals pollution, mineral deficiency, etc. These have posed a tremendous challenge for food security and ecosystem functions. By 2050, global food requirements are estimated to increase by 70–110% to feed a rapidly growing population. In these contexts, it is urgent to seek new methods to guarantee food security and environmental management. The genes and pathways involved in environmental adaption and yield traits would be the focus for breeding forage and ecological plant species, whose growth and production are economically and ecologically key to the sustainability of human society. Multiple efforts to identify the candidate genes and pathways are valuable, e.g., multiple omics, genome assembly, GWAS, genome selection, gene editing, gene mapping, molecular breeding, etc. The pathways should be reported to be related to specific traits, supported by shreds of evidence.
The goal of this Research Topic is to enrich our understanding of the roles of the candidate genes and pathways underlying environmental adaption and yield traits in forage and other ecologically important plants.
In this Research Topic, we encourage the submission of original research articles, reviews and mini-reviews, methods, and opinions, covering but not limited to the following subtopics:
• Characterization of genes and pathways in abiotic stress responses
• Genome assembly and gene family related to abiotic stress responses and yield
• Gene editing to improve abiotic stress tolerance and plant yield
• GWAS studies in forage and ecologically important plants
• Molecular breeding in a population by integrating high-throughput genotyping