This research topic addresses recent scientific advances in legumes focusing on overcoming challenges for improvement in agricultural productivity, nutrition value, and applications in therapeutics and biofuel production. Nevertheless, the integrated omics and genetic studies emphasizing growth, development, and multi-trait regulations in legume crops against several environmental cues are highly encouraged.
Legumes belonging to the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) family comprise the second most important flowering plant family. They hold prime economic importance in agriculture, being extremely beneficial for nutritionally enriched dietary food consumption, the industrial sector, owing to the wide application in the oil and paper industry, with major potential application in medicine and sustainable biofuel production. Despite the huge coverage of geographically distinct growth habitats, the overall growth and global production of food legumes are largely affected by both biotic and abiotic stress constraints. Thereby, the combinatorial studies involving conventional breeding integrated with genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics at the single cell, and tissue-specific level is highly necessary to identify and understand the coordinated aspects of the stress-responsive regulatory gene hub in plants.
The current urgency in the development of multi-stress resilient legume crops which display significantly improved growth and productivity can be addressed with further expansion of the present focus on the increased usage of the underutilized and orphan legume crops, which in return would be highly beneficial towards building food security along with the nutritional value for the future generations.
This research topic addresses novel and interdisciplinary research focusing majorly on legume improvement. The manuscripts for submission dealing with the following research themes are welcome, however not entirely restricted to the following topics:
- Application of integrated genome-wide association studies with multi-omics such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in trait improvement of legumes
- Integrating -omics application in the advancement of legume breeding program
- Single and multi-stress combinatorial studies focusing on the development of disease and climate resilient legume crops (Biotic stress elements- pathogenic infections, Abiotic stress -elements-Drought, salinity, temperature fluctuations, pH alterations, heavy metal stress)
- Advancement in precision genome engineering in legumes
- Breakthrough studies on metabolic response and regulatory pathways elucidating growth, developmental, and yield factors in legumes
- Studies focusing on seed biology and improvement of grain yield in legumes crops- Strategies for enhanced grain filling/pod/seed size
- Research focusing on the potential aspects and limitations in the usage of legumes in biofuel processing and production
This research topic addresses recent scientific advances in legumes focusing on overcoming challenges for improvement in agricultural productivity, nutrition value, and applications in therapeutics and biofuel production. Nevertheless, the integrated omics and genetic studies emphasizing growth, development, and multi-trait regulations in legume crops against several environmental cues are highly encouraged.
Legumes belonging to the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) family comprise the second most important flowering plant family. They hold prime economic importance in agriculture, being extremely beneficial for nutritionally enriched dietary food consumption, the industrial sector, owing to the wide application in the oil and paper industry, with major potential application in medicine and sustainable biofuel production. Despite the huge coverage of geographically distinct growth habitats, the overall growth and global production of food legumes are largely affected by both biotic and abiotic stress constraints. Thereby, the combinatorial studies involving conventional breeding integrated with genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics at the single cell, and tissue-specific level is highly necessary to identify and understand the coordinated aspects of the stress-responsive regulatory gene hub in plants.
The current urgency in the development of multi-stress resilient legume crops which display significantly improved growth and productivity can be addressed with further expansion of the present focus on the increased usage of the underutilized and orphan legume crops, which in return would be highly beneficial towards building food security along with the nutritional value for the future generations.
This research topic addresses novel and interdisciplinary research focusing majorly on legume improvement. The manuscripts for submission dealing with the following research themes are welcome, however not entirely restricted to the following topics:
- Application of integrated genome-wide association studies with multi-omics such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in trait improvement of legumes
- Integrating -omics application in the advancement of legume breeding program
- Single and multi-stress combinatorial studies focusing on the development of disease and climate resilient legume crops (Biotic stress elements- pathogenic infections, Abiotic stress -elements-Drought, salinity, temperature fluctuations, pH alterations, heavy metal stress)
- Advancement in precision genome engineering in legumes
- Breakthrough studies on metabolic response and regulatory pathways elucidating growth, developmental, and yield factors in legumes
- Studies focusing on seed biology and improvement of grain yield in legumes crops- Strategies for enhanced grain filling/pod/seed size
- Research focusing on the potential aspects and limitations in the usage of legumes in biofuel processing and production
