Plant Genetic Diversity and Evolution

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Guest Editors

Dr. Svetlana Goryunova

Email: svetlana.v.goryunova@gmail.com

Affiliation: 1 -Laboratory of Cell and Genomic Technologies, Russian Potato Research Center, Moscow Region,140051 Lyubertsy, Russia

2 - Laboratory of Plant Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, 119333 Moscow, Russia

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Research Interests: plant genetic diversity and phylogeny

Prof. Aleksey Troitsky

Email: bobr@belosersky.msu.ru

Affiliation: Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia

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Research Interests: plant molecular phylogenetics

Summary

The genetic diversity is underlining the adaptation and reflects the evolutionary history of living organisms. Despite the large amount of data of genetic diversity exploration acquired to date, our knowledge on this topic is still fragmentary and incomplete. Moreover, it is known that level of genetic diversity varies greatly among evolutionary lineages, therefore it is critical to study the genomes variability in different taxa to obtain its broad range representation. All this makes further studies extremely important. In general, plants demonstrate significant genetic diversity, which is a major factor of their evolutionary success. Understanding of genetic diversity and evolution has a great fundamental and applied impact. It is critical for biodiversity conservation and biobanking, crop improvement, and medicine as well as for development of other branches of biological science. Contemporary molecular and data analysis techniques are highly promising and provide the wide opportunities for extensive studying of genetic and genomic diversity at different levels and valuable data for robust phylogeny reconstructions. In addition, a huge amount of data collected using high-throughput techniques is a powerful driving force for developing new approaches and improving existing ones for studying evolution and phylogeny reconstructions. Achievements in next generation sequencing give the possibility to access genome-wide exploration of diversity and bring the OMICS technology to the evolutionary studies. Application of such approaches will shed light on the origin and evolution of living organisms and their adaptation to environmental conditions.

The Special Issue is designed to collect scientific papers on plant evolution, phylogeny and genetic diversity including variation within and between individuals, populations, and species. We welcome original research, review articles, and communications.

Scope of the Special Issue:

• Research on genetic and genomic diversity of plants

• Evolutionary process

• Molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics

• Biogeography

• Development and implementation of modern methods for study of diversity, evolution and phylogeny reconstruction

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