Innovative Micropropagation of Horticultural and Medicinal Plants—2nd Edition
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Propagation and Seeds".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 1077
Special Issue Editors
Interests: abiotic stress; endogenous phytohormone; morphogenesis in vitro; secondary metabolites; biotechnology; plant cell; tissue; organ culture
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Interests: plant biotechnology; in vitro propagation of plants; morphogenesis in vitro; arabinogalactan proteins; specialized metabolism and metabolic engineering; plant stress responses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Micropropagation is a plant tissue culture technique used for clonal mass propagation under aseptic and controlled conditions. The main advantage of micropropagation is the rapid multiplication of high quality, disease-free plants throughout the year, starting from a small amount of initial plant tissue. Clonally propagated plants are genetically uniform, which enables the desirable trait preservation of the chosen elite germplasm and the cultivation of high-yielding chemotypes. Tissue culture technology has been applied to the large-scale production of many economically important plants, such as horticultural, silvicultural, and medicinal plants. However, the multiplication rate can be affected by various factors and limitations. This can be overcome by the development and application of new approaches to increase the production of biomass and specialized metabolites and to reduce the overall costs, such as via novel lighting and low-cost systems, e.g., LEDs, bioreactor-based culture systems, and different elicitors (plasma treatment, etc.). Therefore, innovative tissue culture technologies can enable the development of efficient, reliable, and sustainable micropropagation protocols optimized for specific plant species. Micropropagation technology is a valuable tool for the fundamental study of basic plant developmental processes, for the screening of abiotic and biotic stresses, for the in vitro conservation of rare and endangered plant species, and for the production of specialized metabolites.
This Special Issue of Horticulturae aims to highlight innovative techniques and practices for improving the micropropagation systems of horticultural, silvicultural, and medicinal plants. Original research articles and reviews that address diverse applications of micropropagation are welcome.
Dr. Milana Trifunović Momčilov
Dr. Biljana K. Filipović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- in vitro propagation
- somatic embryogenesis
- organogenesis
- plant hormones
- secondary metabolites
- elicitors
- cryopreservation
- abiotic and biotic stresses
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