Abiotic and biotic stresses including drought, high/low temperature, salinity, nutrient deficiency, heavy metals, crop diseases, and insects have become great threats to agricultural production globally. Bast fiber crops including flax, ramie, industrial hemp, kenaf, jute, and apocynum, are significant economic plants. They have excellent stress resistance and can grow in saline alkali land, heavy metal polluted land, gobi desert, and other extreme environments. These crops have developed intricate mechanisms to adapt to these adverse environmental conditions both at physiological and molecular levels. Although current research has divulged several key genes and quantitative trait loci that mediate various abiotic and biotic stresses, a comprehensive understanding of this complex trait in bast fiber crops is still not available.
Identifying important genes related to stress tolerance and revealing their genetic mechanisms are the basis for crop improvement. Bast fiber crops can grow in poor soil for a long time, which have developed a series of genetic mechanisms to adapt to abiotic and biotic stresses. In the process of cultivating new varieties suitable for adversity which requires the varieties to maintain normal growth in adverse environments and achieve a high and excellent yield, the progress is significantly hampered by the complexity of the physiological and genetic mechanisms of stress tolerance. Therefore, identifying genetic determinants of stress tolerance in bast fiber crops can not only accelerate molecular breeding in breeding programs of bast fiber crops but also for other crops with important economic value.
This topic is focused on molecular genetics and genomics approaches to understand the bast fiber crops’ response/adaptation to various abiotic stresses. We welcome all types of articles (original research, method, opinion, and review) that provide new insights into different aspects of bast fiber crops’ responses and adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses, in particular:
• Multi-omics studies on abiotic/biotic stress in bast fiber crops.
• Genome-wide association study (GWAS) on abiotic/biotic stress in bast fiber crops.
• Identification of novel QTL/genes on bast fiber crop biotic/abiotic stress tolerance.
• Perspectives, opinions, and reviews on bast fiber crop abiotic/biotic stress tolerance.
Abiotic and biotic stresses including drought, high/low temperature, salinity, nutrient deficiency, heavy metals, crop diseases, and insects have become great threats to agricultural production globally. Bast fiber crops including flax, ramie, industrial hemp, kenaf, jute, and apocynum, are significant economic plants. They have excellent stress resistance and can grow in saline alkali land, heavy metal polluted land, gobi desert, and other extreme environments. These crops have developed intricate mechanisms to adapt to these adverse environmental conditions both at physiological and molecular levels. Although current research has divulged several key genes and quantitative trait loci that mediate various abiotic and biotic stresses, a comprehensive understanding of this complex trait in bast fiber crops is still not available.
Identifying important genes related to stress tolerance and revealing their genetic mechanisms are the basis for crop improvement. Bast fiber crops can grow in poor soil for a long time, which have developed a series of genetic mechanisms to adapt to abiotic and biotic stresses. In the process of cultivating new varieties suitable for adversity which requires the varieties to maintain normal growth in adverse environments and achieve a high and excellent yield, the progress is significantly hampered by the complexity of the physiological and genetic mechanisms of stress tolerance. Therefore, identifying genetic determinants of stress tolerance in bast fiber crops can not only accelerate molecular breeding in breeding programs of bast fiber crops but also for other crops with important economic value.
This topic is focused on molecular genetics and genomics approaches to understand the bast fiber crops’ response/adaptation to various abiotic stresses. We welcome all types of articles (original research, method, opinion, and review) that provide new insights into different aspects of bast fiber crops’ responses and adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses, in particular:
• Multi-omics studies on abiotic/biotic stress in bast fiber crops.
• Genome-wide association study (GWAS) on abiotic/biotic stress in bast fiber crops.
• Identification of novel QTL/genes on bast fiber crop biotic/abiotic stress tolerance.
• Perspectives, opinions, and reviews on bast fiber crop abiotic/biotic stress tolerance.