Breeding, Cultivation and Metabolic Regulation of Medicinal Plants—2nd Edition
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 376
Special Issue Editors
Interests: variety breeding; ecological adaptability; metabolic regulation; multi-omics of medicinal plants
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Interests: cultivation, molecular breeding, and regulation of secondary metabolites of medicinal plants
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, there are over 50,000 medicinal plants (syn. medicinal herbs) widely used for fighting diseases, relieving aches, and dispelling mosquitoes and other insects—along with other purposes—which largely rely on bioactive metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, etc. With increasing commercial demand all over the world, it is urgent and necessary to produce these high-quality medicinal plants through the selective breeding of good varietites, the optimization of cultivation modes (e.g., eco-planting, wild tending, and Bionic wild planting), and metabolic regulation by environmental factors (e.g., temperatures, light, and nutrition), while preventing and controlling diseases and pests. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original research and review articles that address recent advances in the breeding, cultivation, and metabolic regulation of medicinal plants. Studies on cell and tissue culture, rapid propagation, and water planting will also be considered.
Prof. Dr. Mengfei Li
Prof. Dr. Jianhe Wei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- variety breeding
- cultivation mode
- metabolic regulation
- multi-omics
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