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Special Issue

Genomic and Metabolomic Tools: Twin Thruster Rockets into the Future of Plant Biology

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2020 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Joseph C. Polacco, Ph.D

Emeritus Professor, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, and School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

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Research Interests: Plant nitrogen and nitric oxide metabolism; genetic manipulation; functional genomicss

About This Topic

Plants are superb chemists, beyond their existentially important role in primary carbon (CO2) fixation. Sessile plants cannot flee herbivores/pathogens nor seek out more nutrient-rich soils and better growth conditions. Their survival strategies involve intense chemical communication with their biotic and abiotic environments. As a result, plants are not only a primary food source, but also the raw material for pharmaceuticals, micronutrients in human and animal nutrition, and “exotic” drugs. How can we get an overall view of the myriad chemistries of the plant world? And, how can we appreciate the cross-chemical signaling among plants and between plants and other organisms that employ plants as hosts, or food sources? The spectrum of ‘other organisms’ extends from symbionts to pathogens and herbivores. An important issue is plant chemical communication with pollinators, and potential insectivorous allies, to name two examples of byzantine relationships.

Employing the technologies of both genomics and “metabolomics” we can learn much of the complex chemical relationships between plants and their abiotic and biotic environments.

The aim of the Special Issue is to feature advances in plant genomics and metabolomics, especially their synergistic “cross talk.” We especially seek innovative work in combining biological/genetic manipulation of plants and the resultant effects on their chemical output. Such approaches will aid our understanding of plant associations with microbes, animals and other plants, and can lead to elegant metabolic engineering of plants.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (genetics@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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