Recent Developments in Propagation Techniques and Their Application for Forest Trees

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is one of the leading causes of species extinction in the 21st century. As plant diversity decreases, forest ecological disturbances grow more serious. ‘Plant propagation’ presents humanity with a possible means of solving this crisis. Plant propagation is the process of increasing the number of plants of a particular species or cultivar. Recently, with the development of biotechnology, various plant propagation methods have been introduced.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue, entitled “Recent Developments in Propagation Techniques and Their Application for Forest Trees”, is to attract contributions detailing new advances in plant tissue culture focusing on micropropagation, organogenesis, somatic embryogenesis, gene transformation, seed germination, plant growth regulators, and other applications of plant culture research in vitro. We welcome the submission of original research papers, reviews, and novel in vitro protocols including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• In vitro propagation;
• Micropropagation;
• Organogenesis;
• Somatic embryogenesis;
• Tree biotechnology;
• Genetic transformation;
• Plant growth regulators;
• Seed germination;
• Tree Breeding;
• Omics;
• Tree propagation and cultivation.

Dr. Chang-Ho Ahn
Dr. Cátia Pereira
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• propagation and cultivation
• plant tissue culture
• in vitro propagation
• micropropagation
• organogenesis
• somatic embryogenesis
• genetic transformation
• seed germination, omics