Coarse Cereals include maize, sorghum, oats, barley, foxtail millet, rye, buckwheat, Zizania latifolia, Chenopodium quinoa, Amaranthus hypochondriacus, and legumes. They are rich in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals (especially trace elements), and some antioxidant phytochemicals such as flavonoids, anthraquinones, polyphenols, vitamins, alkaloids, saponins, polysaccharides and peptides. Certain metabolic components may help fight diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes, depending on the plant. With the rapid deterioration of the global ecological environment, scientists are focusing more attention on the potential coarse crops have in terms of nutrition, medical treatment, and environmental adaptation. Coarse crops may have strong environmental adaptability and abiotic stress resistance in specific areas such as the arid regions of Africa and central Asia, or the mountain ranges of Asia. Compared to main crops and model plants, research on the formation mechanism, development process, and regulation mechanism of environmental adaptability of special metabolic components of coarse grain crops is insufficient.
The main objective of this Research Topic is to systematically illustrate the breakthrough in contributions and the potential of sustainable utilization of coarse grain crops in human health, medical treatment, and diet under the challenges of global climate change. We invite scholars to provide systematic or pioneering insights on the genetic basis of special chemical compositions, nutritional structures, tissue developments, and biological or abiotic adaptability of these coarse grain crops through forward or reverse genetic experiments. We also welcome researchers to analyze the genetic diversity of coarse grain crops in different climatic regions of the world and their relationship with major crops. This can be from the perspective of developmental biology or phylogeny, which will help to understand the process of plant differentiation and evolution. Cutting-edge reviews and original studies on character improvement, as well as variety breeding of coarse grain crops can also inspire cultivation strategies and biotechnology in certain plants planted under stressful environmental conditions.
We welcome submissions of original research, comprehensive or mini-reviews, perspectives, and method papers covering the following topics (but not limited to):
• Systematic and innovative reports on chemical composition and detection methods, frontier dynamic review, and model prediction in quality or characteristic metabolism of cereals.
• The genetic basis, functional gene mining, and systematic molecular mechanism analysis of the formation process of important metabolites.
• Review and strategies of genetic improvement of coarse grain crops.
• Their evolutionary relationship, genetic diversity, and homology with the main crops.
• The interaction process with the environment, including the effects of growth, development, and metabolism of coarse grain crops under biotic/abiotic stress or different treatments, and the relationship between these processes and genetic mechanism.
Coarse Cereals include maize, sorghum, oats, barley, foxtail millet, rye, buckwheat, Zizania latifolia, Chenopodium quinoa, Amaranthus hypochondriacus, and legumes. They are rich in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals (especially trace elements), and some antioxidant phytochemicals such as flavonoids, anthraquinones, polyphenols, vitamins, alkaloids, saponins, polysaccharides and peptides. Certain metabolic components may help fight diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes, depending on the plant. With the rapid deterioration of the global ecological environment, scientists are focusing more attention on the potential coarse crops have in terms of nutrition, medical treatment, and environmental adaptation. Coarse crops may have strong environmental adaptability and abiotic stress resistance in specific areas such as the arid regions of Africa and central Asia, or the mountain ranges of Asia. Compared to main crops and model plants, research on the formation mechanism, development process, and regulation mechanism of environmental adaptability of special metabolic components of coarse grain crops is insufficient.
The main objective of this Research Topic is to systematically illustrate the breakthrough in contributions and the potential of sustainable utilization of coarse grain crops in human health, medical treatment, and diet under the challenges of global climate change. We invite scholars to provide systematic or pioneering insights on the genetic basis of special chemical compositions, nutritional structures, tissue developments, and biological or abiotic adaptability of these coarse grain crops through forward or reverse genetic experiments. We also welcome researchers to analyze the genetic diversity of coarse grain crops in different climatic regions of the world and their relationship with major crops. This can be from the perspective of developmental biology or phylogeny, which will help to understand the process of plant differentiation and evolution. Cutting-edge reviews and original studies on character improvement, as well as variety breeding of coarse grain crops can also inspire cultivation strategies and biotechnology in certain plants planted under stressful environmental conditions.
We welcome submissions of original research, comprehensive or mini-reviews, perspectives, and method papers covering the following topics (but not limited to):
• Systematic and innovative reports on chemical composition and detection methods, frontier dynamic review, and model prediction in quality or characteristic metabolism of cereals.
• The genetic basis, functional gene mining, and systematic molecular mechanism analysis of the formation process of important metabolites.
• Review and strategies of genetic improvement of coarse grain crops.
• Their evolutionary relationship, genetic diversity, and homology with the main crops.
• The interaction process with the environment, including the effects of growth, development, and metabolism of coarse grain crops under biotic/abiotic stress or different treatments, and the relationship between these processes and genetic mechanism.
