It Runs in the Family: The Importance of the Lamiaceae Family Species—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 913
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Interests: aromatic plants and vegetable cultivation; development of strategies for plant nutrition and response to abiotic stress; soil-less culture; substrates and hydroponics; postharvest storage and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants; essential oil analysis and biocidal activity; evaluation of natural products
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Dear Colleagues，
In industry, academia, agriculture, and health sciences, there is growing interest in medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs). This trend is due to MAPs having strong antioxidant and antimicrobial properties, as well as other biological properties, in their tissue and extracts, which exceed many commonly used natural and synthetic antioxidants. These properties are related to the presence of a series of compound groups (phenols, flavanols/flavonoids, alkaloids, polypeptides, vitamins, catechins, phytoestrogens, carotenoids, chlorophyll, minerals, etc.). One of the most prominent medicinal plant families, with a great variety of species (more than 7000 species in 236 genera) of a cosmopolitan distribution, is the Lamiaceae family (Labiatae). Species from this family are of great economic importance at a global level, being sold as fresh matter, dry material, essential oils, and a number of by-products.
What makes these species so unique? Cultivation offers the opportunity to optimize yields and achieve a uniform, high-quality product, while wild-grown plants provide unique and rare traits but with great variability. Moreover, a series of difficulties should be faced: low seed germination rates, fertigation and irrigation needs, and harvesting and postharvest management for fresh and dry plants. Intensive cultivation systems (such as hydroponics or new substrates) and their effect on Lamiaceae growth, production, and quality are yet to be explored.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect state-of-the-art research on species from the Lamiaceae family to provide new insights into the importance and unique properties of these plants. All recent advances in the introduction of native (or new) species to cultivation schemes, new cultivation techniques (such as hydroponics or substrates), new applications and uses (edible flowers, urban uses, postharvest management, etc.), and innovative and improved methods of determining biological properties will also be covered in this Special Issue.
Dr. Antonios Chrysargyris
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- edible flowers
- organic farming
- urban uses
- natural products/biological activities
- unexplored edible plants
- introduction of native populations to cultivation schemes
- added-value products
- plant byproducts
- new technological applications
- new cultivation techniques
- hydroponics/substrates
- essential oils and extract properties
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