Genetics, Genomics and NextGen Breeding for Climate Resilience

Climate change is expected to cause enormous changes in agroclimatic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and incidence of disease-pests. Development of climate-ready crop varieties with growth plasticity, resistance to biotic stresses and tolerance to abiotic stresses, improved growth and development patterns, higher efficiency for carbon sequestration and utilization of soil macro- and micronutrients is essential to combat these scenarios. Immediate efforts should be made to identify and generate suitable genetic and genomic resources and develop proper climate envelope for their conservation and utilization. Genomic techniques coupled with conventional breeding methods must be deployed for genomic elucidation of crops’ responses to climate change and their genetic improvement with new gene combinations for a more sustainable agriculture. The articles in the special issue will deliberate on the genomics of traits underlying adoption of climate change and nextgen breeding strategies including molecular breeding, genomics-assisted breeding and gene editing for improved climate change resilience across all crop groups such as cereals, oilseeds, grain legumes, fruits, vegetables and industrial crops.

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Submission Deadline: 30 August 2026

Online Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online through Hapres Online Submission System. Please visit Guide for Authors before submitting a manuscript. Authors are encouraged to submit a paper as soon as it is ready and don’t need to wait until the deadline. Submissions will be sent to peer-review in order of arrival. Accepted papers will be published continuously in Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (CBGG) and then gathered together on the special issue webpage. If interested to contribute, please submit a 200–300 words pitch to the Editorial Office indicating a tentative title, authors, and key points of the study for pre-approval.