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Call for Papers——Special Issue: Germplasm and Molecular Breeding in Horticultural Crops
• Submission deadline: September 30th, 2022

  Submission website: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/asic

  
  

  Introduction 

  Horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, and tea, play fundamental roles in our daily diet, nutrition, and health. Compared with model plants, the genetic backgrounds of the important traits of horticultural crops are complex, thus our understanding of their species origins, domestication processes, as well as the regulatory networks of important traits are limited. The overall breeding cycle of horticultural crops is long and the efficiency is low. In addition, some horticultural crops are self-incompatible, which leads to further complicated procedures in the breeding. In recent years, with the rapid development of experimental technologies such as omics, gene transformation, molecular biology, biochemistry, molecular breeding, and genome editing, the application of these techniques in horticultural crop research has led to outstanding achievements in analyzing the origin and evolution, growth and development, quality formation, and stress responses. Therefore, understanding the genomics and mechanisms underlying the important agronomic traits of each species will greatly promote access to molecular breeding and the utilization of germplasm resources for horticultural crops.

  
  

  Topics covered 

  The Journal of Integrative Agriculture (JIA) special issue on “Germplasm and molecular breeding in horticultural crops” invites you to contribute a research or review article covering relevant areas such as:

  · High-throughput phenotypic evaluation

  · Systematic classification, origin, and dissemination of germplasms 

  · Haplotype and polyploid research

  · Reproductive biology

  · Multi-omics: Genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome

  · Population genetics, selection, and domestication

  · Genetics and molecular mechanisms of agronomic traits

  · Genome editing and high-efficient transformation systems

  · Gene mapping and functional analysis related to quality and disease resistant traits

  · Marker-assisted selection, marker-assisted breeding, genomic selection, and new methods and pipelines for molecular breeding

  
  

  Guest Editors

  Prof. WU Jun

  Member of Editorial Board of JIA 

  College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, China

  E-mail: wujun@njau.edu.cn

  Prof. GUAN Qing-mei

  Member of Editorial Board of JIA

  College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, China

  E-mail: qguan@nwafu.edu.cn

  Prof. WANG Li-rong

  Zhengzhou Fruit Tree Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

  E-mail: wanglirong@caas.cn

  Prof. LUAN Fei-shi

  College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, China

  E-mail: luanfeishi@neau.edu.cn

  Prof. DUAN Qiao-hong

  College of Horticulture Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, China

  E-mail: duanqh@sdau.edu.cn  

  Prof. SONG Chuan-kui

  State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, China

  E-mail: sckfriend@163.com

  
  

  All full papers should be submitted and presented in English. All papers must be submitted online (http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/asic), and should include the key words “Germplasm and molecular breeding in horticultural crops” after the title to distinguish them from general submission articles. The format of manuscripts and the information about JIA can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/20953119.

  
  This special focus will strictly follow the editorial policies of JIA. All manuscripts must pass the journal’s rigorous peer-review process. For further questions on this special focus issue, please contact Managing Editor WENG Ling-yun, Tel: +86-10-82106280, E-mail: wenglingyun@caas.cn

  
  

Pubdate： 2022-05-01    Viewed： 893