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Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Plants with Special Emphasis on Ornamentals
This special issue belongs to the section “Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of "Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Plants with Special Emphasis on Ornamentals" is to bring together new ideas, techniques, and technologies on genetic improvement of horticultural plants, including fruits, vegetables, aromatics, medicinal, and ornamental plants. Ornamental plants are prized for their aesthetical value, so genetic improvement of both foliage and flower color is necessary to meet the constant changing taste of consumers. Both these traits—foliage and flower color—can be affected by biotic and abiotic stresses. In addition, traits such as compactness, particularly in urban dwellings, are increasingly desired. This Special Issue welcomes original research, short communication, reviews, and methods focused on any areas of the genetic improvement of horticultural plants, such as breeding (classical and molecular), tissue culture and transformation, mutation breeding, cytogenetics, etc.
Dr. Hamidou F. Sakhanokho
Dr. Nurul Islam-Faridi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultivar development
- disease resistance breeding
- wide crosses
- transcriptome sequencing
- differential gene expression
- genome sequencing and characterization
- abiotic stress tolerance
- ploidy manipulation
- mutation breeding
- somaclonal variation
- molecular cytogenetics
- apomixis
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