Analysis of Complex Traits and Molecular Selection in Annual Crops—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Following the first edition of this Special Issue, "Analysis of Complex Traits and Molecular Selection in Annual Crops", in Agronomy, the Editorial Office would like to launch a second edition. The subject, the editorial team, and the submission process will remain the same.

The agronomic traits of crops are some of the most pressing issues in agricultural production. Analyses of complex agronomic traits, such as crop yield, quality and stress resistance, molecular selection, and the construction as well as mining of complex relationship networks between crop genes and agronomic traits, represent the frontiers of and hot issues in crop research. The complex agronomic traits of crops are controlled by the effects of multiple genes, environments, gene–gene interactions, and gene–environment interactions. For a long time, there has been a lack of effective research that analyzes complex agronomic traits. With the development of high-throughput sequencing technology, we can comprehensively and systematically understand the compositions of complex agronomic traits and molecular selection breeding.

In this Special Issue, we seek integrative studies that highlight the genetic basis of complex agronomic traits in annual crops for molecular selection, including (but not limited to) the development of new techniques and methods in addition to the integration of multiple omics data for the analysis of complex agronomic traits, as well as reviews that offer original perspectives on the analysis of complex traits and molecular selection in annual crops.

Dr. Chao Shen
Dr. Hantao Wang
Guest Editors

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• complex traits
• QTL mapping
• molecular selection
• genome-wide association study
• linkage mapping
• genomics
• population genetics
• domestication and improvement

• Analysis of Complex Traits and Molecular Selection in Annual Crops in Agronomy (5 articles)