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New Strategies in Plant Improvement

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Molecular Breeding - Good News: Molecular Breeding received the new citation metrics, IF 2022 as 3.1, CiteScore 2022 as 6.7!

We are pleased to announce that Molecular Breeding (MOLB) has received the new citation metrics in June 2023:

Impact Factor (IF 2022) as 3.1, which placed the journal as #78/238 (Q2) in the category of Plant Sciences, #19/88 (Q1) in the category of Agronomy, #6/36 (Q1) in the category of Horticulture and #79/171 (Q2) in the category of Genetics & Heredity.

CiteScore 2022 as 6.7, which placed our journal as #48/376 (87th percentile) in the category of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Agronomy and Crop Science, #64/487 (86th percentile) in the category of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, and #86/299 (71st percentile) in the category of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors, reviewers, readers and editorial board members for their continuous support to the journal, and making this exciting development possible!

Call for Reading

We have selected 10 highly downloaded articles published in 2021-2022 as below. We hope the journal readers will enjoy reading those articles and recommending them to their colleagues!

  1. Liu, S., Qin, F. Genetic dissection of maize drought tolerance for trait improvement. Mol Breeding 41, 8 (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-020-01194-w
  2. Zhu, M., Tong, L., Xu, M. et al. Genetic dissection of maize disease resistance and its applications in molecular breeding Mol Breeding 41, 32 (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-021-01219-y
  3. Nuccio, M.L., Claeys, H. & Heyndrickx, K.S. CRISPR-Cas technology in corn: a new key to unlock genetic knowledge and create novel products. Mol Breeding 41, 11 (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-021-01200-9
  4. Saini, D.K., Chopra, Y., Singh, J. et al. Comprehensive evaluation of mapping complex traits in wheat using genome-wide association studies. Mol Breeding 42, 1 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-021-01272-7
  5. Huang, J., Gao, L., Luo, S. et al. The genetic editing of GS3 via CRISPR/Cas9 accelerates the breeding of three-line hybrid rice with superior yield and grain quality. Mol Breeding 42, 22 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-022-01290-z
  6. Chen, Dg., Zhou, Xq., Chen, K. et al. Fine-mapping and candidate gene analysis of a major locus controlling leaf thickness in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Mol Breeding 42, 6 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-022-01275-y
  7. Chen, Z., Gallavotti, A. Improving architectural traits of maize inflorescences. Mol Breeding 41, 21 (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-021-01212-5
  8. Zhao, H., Savin, K.W., Li, Y. et al. Genome-wide association studies dissect the G × E interaction for agronomic traits in a worldwide collection of safflowers (Carthamus tinctorius L.). Mol Breeding 42, 24 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-022-01295-8
  9. Inturrisi, F., Bayer, P.E., Cantila, A.Y. et al. In silico integration of disease resistance QTL, genes and markers with the Brassica juncea physical map. Mol Breeding 42, 37 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11032-022-01309-5
  10. Katz, A., Byrne, P., Reid, S. et al. Identification and validation of a QTL for spikelet number on chromosome arm 6BL of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Mol Breeding 42, 17 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/1007/s11032-022-01288-7

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