Horticulturae | Title Story Articles from the First Half of 2024

We are delighted to present a list of title story articles selected for display at the top of the Horticulturae (ISSN: 2311-7524) homepage for the first half of 2024. These articles cover a wide range of topics, including plant growth, stress responses, in vitro propagation, fertilization strategies, pathogenic fungi, fruit quality evaluation, and robotic harvesting, to name a few. We hope you will find something of interest among these exceptional publications.

1. “Genotype-Specific Response to Silicon Supply in Young Tomato and Unripe Melon Plants Grown in a Floating System”
by Annalisa Somma, Onofrio Davide Palmitessa, Massimiliano D’Imperio, Francesco Serio and Pietro Santamaria
Horticulturae 2024, 10(1), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10010069
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/1/69

2. “Temporary Immersion System as an Innovative Approach for In Vitro Propagation of Sorbus domestica L.”
by Valeria Gianguzzi and Francesco Sottile
Horticulturae 2024, 10(2), 164; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10020164
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/2/164

3. “Enhancing the Yield of Mature Olive Trees via Comparative Fertilization Strategies, including a Foliar Application with Fulvic and Humic Acids, in Non-Irrigated Orchards with Calcareous and Non-Calcareous Soils”
by Stavros Sotiropoulos, Christos Chatzissavvidis, Ioannis E. Papadakis, Victor Kavvadias, Christos Paschalidis, Chrysovalantou Antonopoulou and Sotirios Kiriakopoulos
Horticulturae 2024, 10(2), 167; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10020167
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/2/167

4. “Tomato Accumulates Cadmium to a Concentration Independent of Plant Growth”
by Xingyu Zhang, Cong Zhang and Yuyang Zhang
Horticulturae 2023, 9(12), 1343; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9121343
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/12/1343

5. “Active Laser-Camera Scanning for High-Precision Fruit Localization in Robotic Harvesting: System Design and Calibration”
by Kaixiang Zhang, Pengyu Chu, Kyle Lammers, Zhaojian Li and Renfu Lu
Horticulturae 2024, 10(1), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10010040
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/1/40

6. “Selective Retention of Cross-Fertilised Fruitlets during Premature Fruit Drop of Hass Avocado”
by Nimanie S. Hapuarachchi, Wiebke Kämper, Shahla Hosseini Bai, Steven M. Ogbourne, Joel Nichols, Helen M. Wallace and Stephen J. Trueman
Horticulturae 2024, 10(6), 591; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10060591
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/6/591

7. “Sweet Cherry Fruit Firmness Evaluation Using Compression Distance Methods”
by Maria Karageorgiadou, Maria Rodovitou, Elpida Nasiopoulou, Vaia Styliani Titeli and Michail Michailidis
Horticulturae 2024, 10(5), 435; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10050435
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/5/435

8. “Lasiodiplodia iraniensis and Diaporthe spp. Are Associated with Twig Dieback and Fruit Stem-End Rot of Sweet Orange, Citrus sinensis, in Florida”
by Valeria Piattino, Dalia Aiello, Greta Dardani, Ilaria Martino, Mauricio Flores, Srđan G. Aćimović, Davide Spadaro, Giancarlo Polizzi and Vladimiro Guarnaccia
Horticulturae 2024, 10(4), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10040406
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/4/406

9. “Resilient Response to Combined Heat and Drought Stress Conditions of a Tomato Germplasm Collection, Including Natural and Ethyl Methanesulfonate-Induced Variants”
by Rocío Fonseca, Rosa Micol-Ponce, Carmen V. Ozuna, Laura Castañeda, Carmen Capel, Antonia Fernández-Lozano, Ana Ortiz-Atienza, Sandra Bretones, José M. Pérez-Jiménez, Abraham S. Quevedo-Colmena et al.
Horticulturae 2024, 10(6), 552; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10060552
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/6/552

10. “Morphological and Physiological Responses of Weigela florida ‘Eva Rathke’ to Biostimulants and Growth Promoters”
by Dezső Kovács, Katalin Horotán, László Orlóci, Marianna Makádi, István Dániel Mosonyi, Magdolna Sütöri-Diószegi and Szilvia Kisvarga
Horticulturae 2024, 10(6), 582; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10060582
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/6/582