Modernizing Horticultural Crop Improvement for Enhanced Yields and Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Light, temperature, water, fertilizer, climate, soil, variety, cultivation techniques, and management methods all affect the yield and quality of horticultural crops. Improving the yield and quality of horticultural crops is needed to meet people's demand for high-quality and diverse horticultural products. The utilization of fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, and agricultural films not only satisfies horticultural production, but also becomes increasingly environmentally unfriendly. At the same time, the use of modern biotechnology such as tissue culture, genetically modified organisms, and gene knockout in horticultural crops is becoming increasingly evident. However, ensuring the safe utilization of biotechnology in horticultural crops is a long-term and worthy hot topic of biological research. How to balance safety, efficiency, sustainability, yield, and quality of horticultural crops requires in-depth research from various aspects.

This Special Issue, entitled “Modernizing Horticultural Crop Improvement for Enhanced Yields and Quality”, will focus on the utilization of new technologies, methods, models, and germplasm resources for safe, efficient, and sustainable improvement of horticultural crop yield and quality.

We invite researchers to contribute both original research articles and reviews to this Special Issue.

Dr. Guofei Tan
Prof. Dr. Lifei Chen
Guest Editors

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• horticultural crop
• technologies
• methods
• models
• germplasm resources