Special Issue "Genetic Improvement of Herbaceous Ornamental Plants"

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hamidou F. Sakhanokho
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Guest Editor
Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Poplarville, MS 39470, USA
Interests: ornamental and small fruit breeding and genetics; mutation breeding; ploidy manipulation; development of germplasms tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses; tissue culture and transformation; molecular cytogenetics.
Dr. Nurul Islam-Faridi
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Guest Editor
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Forest Tree Molecular Cytogenetics Laboratory, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: cytogenetics of southern pines and hardwoods (Populus, Castanea, Fraxinus, Quercus spp.); Comparative cytogenetics and genomics of southern pines and hardwoods; Organization and distribution of rRNA genes, and distribution of repetitive DNA and transposable elements in tree genomes.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Herbaceous ornamentals consist of annual, biennial, and perennial plants with flexible stems. Used for both large-scale public and private home landscaping, ornamental herbaceous plants vary greatly in their growth patterns and tolerance to biotic or abiotic stresses. Herbaceous ornamentals are prized for their aesthetical value, so genetic improvement of both foliage and flower color is necessary to meet the constant changing taste of the 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.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together new ideas, techniques, and technologies on genetic improvement of herbaceous ornamental plants. Contributions including original research, short communication, reviews, and methods focused on any areas of the genetic improvement of herbaceous ornamentals, such as breeding (classical and molecular), tissue culture and transformation, mutation breeding, cytogenetics, etc., are welcome.

Dr. Hamidou F. Sakhanokho
Dr. Nurul Islam-Faridi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Horticulturae is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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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

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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