Molecular Breeding - Call for Papers: Special Issue of Fruit Science
Editors
Qiang Xu, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Juyou Wu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Yuepeng Han, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Craig Hardner, Centre for Horticultural Science, University of Queensland, Australia
Aims and Scope
Fruits are vital natural source of dietary fibre, vitamins, and antioxidants for healthy diets and for alleviating health disorders. Fruit crops have great genetic diversity resulting from both domestication and adaptation, which are ideal for studying plant evolution, growth development, trait genetics, gene identification, molecular tools and other aspects of plant biology. In addition, breeding of fruit trees with higher quality fruits, better tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses are required for fruit production as cash crops. Research in fruits and fruit trees has greatly accelerated with the rapid advances in molecular biology, genomics and other new technologies. This special issue aims to publish interesting and impactful research discoveries in fruits and fruit trees to increase the impact of fruit research in the global plant and crop science community. Articles addressing fundamental questions in areas of basic and translational research are welcome. A review article should focus on a specific topic for milestones and state of the art fruit research in genetics, genomics, and molecular control of fruit traits.
If you have interest to submit a paper to this special issue, you may send queries to Qiang Xu (xuqiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn), (this opens in a new tab) Juyou Wu (juyouwu@njau.edu.cn), Yuepeng Han (yphan@wbgcas.cn) or Craig Hardner (c.hardner@uq.edu.au) to discuss your proposed topic.
Schedule
Submission due: March 31st, 2024
First decision: May 31st, 2024
Expected publication: August, 2024 (article will be published within 2-3 weeks once accepted)
Submission Procedure
All submissions must be done electronically through MOLB’s submission system at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/molb/default1.aspx
Please select the article type: ʺFruit Science”.
Please refer to https://www.springer.com/journal/11032/submission-guidelines for more detailed instructions to authors.