Tropical Plant Biology - Call for Papers: Sugarcane Breeding - Physiology, Genomics, and Phenomics for Agronomic Traits Development

Submission deadline: 30 June 2024

Guest Editors

Gao San-Ji
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
China
 

Wang Qin-Nan
Guangdong Academy of Sciences
China

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is an important industrial C4 crop which accounts for 80% of sugar and 40% of bioethanol production globally. Extreme environmental events associated with climate change are becoming more frequent and could push roughly one-third of global food crop production beyond the safe climatic space by the end of this century. Enhancing stress resilience of crops is a key strategy in achieving global sugarcane security. 

Plants perceive adverse environmental conditions and initiate signaling pathways to activate precise responses that contribute to their survival. The prevailing alarming climate change scenario and future changing weather provide challenges for researchers to better understanding plant responses such as the activation of different signal cascades, followed by signal transduction, and the respective gene expression in response to single or combined biotic or abiotic stresses, ultimately enhancing crop yield.

Plant breeding-based technologies have contributed significantly to sugarcane improvement during the last few decades. The advent of third generation sequencing, multiple omics (i.e., proteomics, genomics, and transcriptomics, etc.), and high throughput phenomics provide vast information on genes, proteins and metabolites, elucidating metabolic and biological systems’ response to various biotic and abiotic stresses for agronomic traits improvement in sugarcane. 

This Collection aims to publish contributions focusing on physiology, genomics, phenomics for agronomic traits development, including (but not limited to): 

• Assessment and applications of novel traditional and recent advanced plant breeding strategies using genomic based technologies for agronomic traits development in sugarcane.
   
• Functional genomics for assessment of genetic diversity among cultivated and wild relatives of sugarcane.
   
• Bioinformatics, gene functioning, characterization, regulatory, and mutagenesis tools for discovery of genes for stress endorsement in sugarcane.
   
• Gene editing and transformation tools and technologies for sugarcane improvement.
   
• Functional genomics such as marker assisted selection, genomic selections, genetic manipulation, and genes editing as well as OMICs (genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) based strategies for developing climate resilient sugarcane cultivars.
   
• Application of conventional and recent advanced genetics and genomics for understanding genes controlling key agronomic traits in response to biotic and abiotic stressors.Genetic variant effects on sugarcane disease and gene function.
   
• Functional genomics to understand the molecular mechanism of defense response and explore potential strategies for stress endorsement.
   
• The role of polyploidy on mutation rates in sugarcane.
   

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO AUTHORS:

1) Check the journal submission guidelines (this opens in a new tab) before submiting your manuscript.

2) In the submission system, select "Sugarcane Breeding" Collection in the Details tab.

3) Mention the submission to this Collection in your cover letter to the editor.

4) If you want to send a submission enquiry, please contact the publisher (this opens in a new tab).

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