Conventional and Molecular Breeding Technologies for the Improvement of Industrial Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 568
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The success of biofuels and by-products lies in finding inexpensive feedstocks that do not compete with food crops and can be cultivated economically in diverse geographical regions and agricultural production systems. These sustainable, alternative sources must be renewable, with positive social, economic, and environmental performance.
Recent advancements in genomics and gene discovery tools allow plant breeders to understand the genetic bases of many traits, discover the gene networks controlling these traits, and explore the diversity of these genes and associated traits in their plant germplasm. These advancements promise a rapid acceleration in germplasm improvement for industrial uses.
This Special Issue is focused on “Conventional and Molecular Breeding Technologies for the Improvement of Industrial Crops”. We invite novel research studies and reviews covering related topics to improve industrial and bioenergy crops, including genetic and genomics, breeding methodologies, gene discovery and identification, genetic and phenotypic diversities, high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping strategies, genomic selection and prediction, responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, and exploring genotype and environments interactions (G × E).
Dr. Hussein Abdel-Haleem
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental stresses
- bioenergy crops
- genetic diversity
- genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
- genomic selection
- high-throughput phenotyping
- industrial crops
- marker-assisted breeding
- next-generation sequencing
- quantitative trait loci (QTL)
