Advances in Brassica Crops Genomics and Breeding

<p><em>Brassica</em> crops include vegetable oil ornamental and condimental crops. Many of these such as Chinese cabbage cabbage and rapeseed are important crops cultivated globally. <em>Brassica</em> species are unique not only because of their economic importance but also because of the domestication of extreme morphological types such as leafy heading root/stem enlarging and florescence heading in these species. Moreover <em>Brassica</em> species represent several important polyploidization events including paleo- meso- and present polyploidization which make them ideal as model species for the investigation of polyploidization. With the fast progress that we are making in sequencing technologies a number of genomes of <em>Brassica</em> crops species have been sequenced and several high-quality chromosome scale assemblies have been obtained. Moreover the large-scale resequencing data of germplasm resources of <em>B. rapa B. oleracea </em>and <em>B. napus</em> have been made available which allow GWAS and domestication analysis in these important crops. This Special Issue contains studies and reviews focusing on Genomic Exploration Functional Genomics and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding in <em>Brassica</em> crops. These research findings will contribute to advancements in breeding research conducted on <em>Brassica</em> crops.</p>