Rapid population growth and global climate change pose great challenges to agricultural production. Therefore, there are increasing demands for food supply and safety. One of the desirable solutions is screening and breeding new cultivars for crops and fruits with favorable features, such as high yield and quality, resistance to external biotic and abiotic stimulus, and low absorption and accumulation of pollutes, which has received increasing attention over the past decade.
Plant phenotypes are the output of complex regulatory networks. Therefore, a comprehensive dissection of the underlying genetic mechanisms will contribute to the breeding of new cultivars for crops and fruits, which would improve the diversity and safety of our food. Taking the recent advantages of high-throughput sequencing technologies, pan-genomic and transcriptomic studies identified key functional genes and pathways that play essential roles in regulating interest phenotypes. The novel findings largely boost molecular-assisted screening and delivering cultivated crops and fruits with desired agronomic traits. In addition, these efforts also bring a promising insight into the utilization of genetic transformation in plant breeding programs with the application of gene-editing tools.
For this Research Topic, we mainly focus on studies aiming to unveil the molecular basis underlying plant complex traits, including but not limited to genomic, transcriptomic, and/or post-transcriptomic levels. Therefore, we welcome Original Research and Review articles that are relevant to the following categories of interests:
• Overview and perspective on molecular-based screening and breeding strategies of crop or fruit cultivars.
• Exploring transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks underlying desired agronomic traits in crops, vegetables, fruits, etc.
• Pan-genomic studies on plant complex phenotypes.
• Multi-omics studies and their applications in the agricultural area.
Rapid population growth and global climate change pose great challenges to agricultural production. Therefore, there are increasing demands for food supply and safety. One of the desirable solutions is screening and breeding new cultivars for crops and fruits with favorable features, such as high yield and quality, resistance to external biotic and abiotic stimulus, and low absorption and accumulation of pollutes, which has received increasing attention over the past decade.
Plant phenotypes are the output of complex regulatory networks. Therefore, a comprehensive dissection of the underlying genetic mechanisms will contribute to the breeding of new cultivars for crops and fruits, which would improve the diversity and safety of our food. Taking the recent advantages of high-throughput sequencing technologies, pan-genomic and transcriptomic studies identified key functional genes and pathways that play essential roles in regulating interest phenotypes. The novel findings largely boost molecular-assisted screening and delivering cultivated crops and fruits with desired agronomic traits. In addition, these efforts also bring a promising insight into the utilization of genetic transformation in plant breeding programs with the application of gene-editing tools.
For this Research Topic, we mainly focus on studies aiming to unveil the molecular basis underlying plant complex traits, including but not limited to genomic, transcriptomic, and/or post-transcriptomic levels. Therefore, we welcome Original Research and Review articles that are relevant to the following categories of interests:
• Overview and perspective on molecular-based screening and breeding strategies of crop or fruit cultivars.
• Exploring transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks underlying desired agronomic traits in crops, vegetables, fruits, etc.
• Pan-genomic studies on plant complex phenotypes.
• Multi-omics studies and their applications in the agricultural area.