A New Decade of Horticultural and Medicinal Plants Cultivation

Dear Colleagues,

Horticultural businesses, comprising ornamental and medicinal plants, always seek new, innovative trends and niches that would guide the product sale increases. New and innovative cultivation techniques are always developed via academic research and experimental trials. This Special Issue aims to record the most recent and novel findings for the development of horticultural cultivation in the new decade (2020–2030), both in open-field and greenhouse, with particular interest in sustainable production, propagation, irrigation, fertilization, biostimulants application, substrate mixtures, weed management, and plant protection.

Contributions to this Special Issue may focus on but are not be limited to four major topics: (1) sustainable and environmental friendly horticultural production (e.g., low CO₂ footprints, life cycle assessments, etc); (2) propagation of horticultural plants (e.g., bulbs, in vitro technologies, etc.), (3) innovative cultivation practices and techniques (e.g., soilless, biostimulants application, irrigation, fertilization, pest management, etc.), and (4) new species for exploitation by the horticultural industry (e.g., biofuels, bioenergy, etc.).

Dr. Matteo Caser
Guest Editor

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