Subtropical Fruits: Sustainable Management, Propagation Techniques and Seedling Production
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 1076
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop management; physiology; propagation; cultivar evaluation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: crop management; plant physiology; plant phenology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cultivation of various subtropical fruit crops around the world boosts the economies of many countries, supplying the domestic market and enabling competitive international trade. The use of physiological principles to guide orchard management will significantly improve productivity and, consequently, fruit quality. Innovation in plant propagation has supported breeding programs and made it possible to produce high-quality seedlings.
This Special Issue, “Subtropical Fruits: Sustainable Management, Propagation Techniques and Seedling Production”, will present innovative studies, tools, approaches and techniques, as well as any other innovation that has improved the economics of seedling production. In addition, papers discussing useful innovations such as cultivar variability, advanced soil use and management, mechanization processes, training systems, cultural practices such as irrigation, fertilization, canopy density, thinning, pesticide application technology, fruit descriptors and harvesting methods and other post-harvest approaches that improve the profitability and sustainability of subtropical fruit crops are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Sarita Leonel
Dr. Jackson Mirellys Azevedo Souza
Prof. Dr. Marcelo de Souza Silva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cultural practices
- environment–physiology–plant interactions
- soil use and management
- seeds
- propagation methods
- cutting
- grafting
- micro-propagation
- plant growth media
- growth regulators
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