Climate change and global warming are arising threaten to ecology and agriculture, hence the biotic and abiotic stresses to crops cultivation are becoming more severe. Simultaneously, hunger and poverty remain at large around the world, and rather thriving with the global population expanding, over-fertilization, and land degradation somehow. The rising challenges thus make agriculture adapting environment more pivotal. Plant tolerance against various stress including abiotic and biotic stress mostly is a classic topic and also a hot spot, of which the goal is providing the possibility to improve crops’ sustainability confronting varied environments.
Sustainable crop improvement helps to feed the kept growing population in such an era of shrinking cultivable lands and dwindling water resources. Worldwide, the inexorable exposure of plants to the environment makes crops always will come to cross biotic and abiotic stresses which keep influencing food supply. The crop improvement against devastating stress factors such as drought, salt, nutrition deprivation, pest, pathogen et al, have been captivating scientists’ attention, and to make effort to enhance tolerance and hence save the yield from destruction. With the explosive development of OMICS technologies, e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, interactomics, and phenomics, crop improvement is embarking on a fire-new biological information era. Integration of multi-omics will provide a new perspective on comprehending the intricate nature of stresses response.
We expect and collect remarkable studies of:
-Integration with multi-omics revealing the complex genetic regulatory networks and hub genes controlling the mechanisms of stresses tolerance;
- Development of system biology approaches integrated with multi-omics data analysis for crop improvement for stress tolerance, software or algorithm are both in demand;
- Genetic regulatory network and model analysis about abiotic and biotic stress response;
- New functional gene or genetic loci identified for stresses tolerance based on omics assay；
- Omics approach on pests and will enlighten the investigation in plant tolerance.
The objective of the present research topic is to emphasize the power of new technologies and big data. We want to show how new technologies cope with the challenges and the advances of functional genes and loci for plant tolerance improvement identified by new omics analysis. The Preferred themes are listed above, but not limited to them.
Climate change and global warming are arising threaten to ecology and agriculture, hence the biotic and abiotic stresses to crops cultivation are becoming more severe. Simultaneously, hunger and poverty remain at large around the world, and rather thriving with the global population expanding, over-fertilization, and land degradation somehow. The rising challenges thus make agriculture adapting environment more pivotal. Plant tolerance against various stress including abiotic and biotic stress mostly is a classic topic and also a hot spot, of which the goal is providing the possibility to improve crops’ sustainability confronting varied environments.
Sustainable crop improvement helps to feed the kept growing population in such an era of shrinking cultivable lands and dwindling water resources. Worldwide, the inexorable exposure of plants to the environment makes crops always will come to cross biotic and abiotic stresses which keep influencing food supply. The crop improvement against devastating stress factors such as drought, salt, nutrition deprivation, pest, pathogen et al, have been captivating scientists’ attention, and to make effort to enhance tolerance and hence save the yield from destruction. With the explosive development of OMICS technologies, e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, interactomics, and phenomics, crop improvement is embarking on a fire-new biological information era. Integration of multi-omics will provide a new perspective on comprehending the intricate nature of stresses response.
We expect and collect remarkable studies of:
-Integration with multi-omics revealing the complex genetic regulatory networks and hub genes controlling the mechanisms of stresses tolerance;
- Development of system biology approaches integrated with multi-omics data analysis for crop improvement for stress tolerance, software or algorithm are both in demand;
- Genetic regulatory network and model analysis about abiotic and biotic stress response;
- New functional gene or genetic loci identified for stresses tolerance based on omics assay；
- Omics approach on pests and will enlighten the investigation in plant tolerance.
The objective of the present research topic is to emphasize the power of new technologies and big data. We want to show how new technologies cope with the challenges and the advances of functional genes and loci for plant tolerance improvement identified by new omics analysis. The Preferred themes are listed above, but not limited to them.