Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics of Fruit Crops
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Genotype Evaluation and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 23997
Special Issue Editor
Interests: tree crop biotechnology; tree crop genomics; transgenics; biodiversity evaluation and analysis; fruit tree crops breeding; reproductive biology on fruit crops
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Dear Colleagues,
The fruit tree crop field is experiencing radical changes thanks to both technical and genetic innovations that are contributing to the production of fruits with improved characteristics (fruit quality, yield, resistance to biotic/abiotic stress). The global demand for fruit tree crops with such improved agronomical and fruit quality traits is increasing rapidly every year. However, genetic improvement by traditional breeding is slow and unpredictable due to the long juvenile phase, high degree of heterozygosity, and polygenic regulation of most agronomical traits. Traditional breeding increases its efficiency when supported by genetic and molecular information using marker-assisted selection (MAS). Advances in DNA-derived data and innovative phenotyping are bridging the genotype-to-phenotype gap in fruit tree crop selection. Developing new genomic-based tools using next-generation sequencing (NGS), high-throughput genotyping technologies (such as SNP arrays and target sequencing), and new breeding techniques (NBT) has expedited the chance for achieving important improved traits.
This Special Issue welcomes innovative research focusing on the detection and/or application of molecular markers helping breeders toward the definition of novel ideotypes characterized by superior agronomical traits.
Prof. Dr. Gaetano Distefano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phenotyping
- genotyping
- NGS
- NBTs
- marker assisted selection breeding