Plant Pangenomes and Pangenomics

Table of Contents

1. Plant pangenomes and pangenomics: Current achievements and future directions
2. Technological development for analyzing and constructing plant pangenomes
3. Bioinformatics tools for plant pangenomics: Analysis, assembly and visualization
4. Pangenomics for crop improvement on yield and quality
5. Pangenomics for accelerating crop breeding
6. Super-pangenomes in plants: Progress and future perspectives
7. The impact of whole genome duplication on plant pangenomes
8. Pangenomics for combating plant abiotic stress
9. Pangenomics for combating plant diseases
10. Pangenomics for developing future climate-smart crops
11. Pangenomics for developing heat stress-tolerant plants
12. Pangenomics for developing cold stress-tolerant plants
13. Pangenomics for developing drought stress-tolerant plants
14. Pangenomics for developing salinity stress-tolerant plants
15. Pangenomics for developing heavy metal stress-tolerant plants
16. Pangenomics for developing bacterial disease-resistant plants
17. Pangenomics for developing viral disease-resistant plants
18. Pangenomics for developing fungal disease-resistant plants
19. Pangenomics for developing pest-resistant plants
20. Pangenomics for studying plant-microbe interactions
21. Pangenomics for plant evolutionary developmental biology
22. Pangenomics for studying plant population genetics
23. Pangenomics for studying plant genome evolution
24. Pangenomics for studying plant phenotypic evolution
25. Pangenomics for studying plant secondary metabolism
26. Structural variants in plant pangenomes: Current findings and applications
27. Plant pangenome graphs: Methods and applications
28. Pangenomics for plant growth-promoting microorganisms
29. The integration of pangenomics with plant functional and comparative genomics
30. Advances in telomere-to-telomere plant genomes
31. Applied Pangenomes in Agriculture and Plant Biology

Authors

Jen-Tsung Chen Professor, Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Nanzih District, Taiwan. Jen-Tsung Chen?is a Professor of Cell Biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, where he teaches cell biology, genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. His research spans bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, bioinformatics, systems pharmacology, and broader themes in biotechnological plant disease management, plant biotic stress responses, nanotechnology for combating pests and pathogens, ethnopharmacology, and systems biology. An active scholar, Dr. Chen serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and has guest-edited numerous special issues. He has also authored and edited books with major international publishers on topics including drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, plant speed breeding, CRISPR-based genome editing, and artificial intelligence. Recognized for his scientific impact and editorial leadership, Dr. Chen was listed among Elsevier and Stanford University's "World's Top 2% Scientists� in 2023 and 2024 and received the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award in 2025.