Dear Colleagues,

Plant growth is restricted by abiotic and biotic stresses, such as drought, high temperatures, cold, pathogenic bacteria and other adverse factors. Additionally, plants have evolved a wide array of resistant mechanisms. With the explosive development of OMICS technologies, e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, crop improvement is entering on a new era of biological information. In addition, it is important to investigate gene function and regulatory mechanisms via gene editing, overexpression, yeast two-hybrid methods and other molecular means for the purpose of future plant breeding. The combination of omics and molecular methods can help to accelerate the breeding process for stress resistance. Thus, we are launching this Special Issue of Agronomy, entitled “Analysis of Plant Resistance Mechanism for Crop Breeding”.

We aim to collect remarkable studies into:

• Integration using multi-omics to reveal the complex genetic regulatory networks and hub genes controlling the mechanisms of stress tolerance;
• Genetic regulatory network and model analysis of abiotic and biotic stress responses;
• New functional genes or genetic loci identification for stresses tolerance.

Dr. Xiaofeng Su
Prof. Dr. Xin Xie
Guest Editors

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• plant
• stress resistance
• molecular mechanism
• breeding