Advanced Integrated Pest Management for Sustainable Horticulture
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 1949
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A successful integrated pest management (IPM) strategy is of key importance for the sustainable cultivation of horticultural crops. The adoption of this approach, however, requires strong scientific knowledge, continuous farmers’ toolbox innovation and a good framework to transfer IPM effectively in practice to the farm level.
This Special Issue will be dedicated to the advanced IPM strategies applied in horticulture and will deal with pest and disease management with a focus on agroecological and food systems, looking at how to apply innovative and smart technologies for the diagnosis, monitoring and management of plant pests and diseases.
This Special Issue will also try to bring together interdisciplinary expertise from academia, research, industry, and other horticulture stakeholders to share the latest advancements in the field of IPM in horticultural crops. Some key areas or topics of this Issue will include:
- Biocontrol as important part of IPM in horticulture;
- Advanced IPM technology in entomology or plant pathology;
- IPM and resistance management;
- Management of invasive pests in IPM;
- Soil health management with IPM approach;
- The role of IPM in preserving biodiversity;
- Importance of training for IPM.
Dr. Arben Myrta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- horticulture
- integrated pest management
- IPM
- pest
- disease
- biocontrol
- resistance management
- biodiversity
- vegetables
- fruits
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