Physiological and Molecular Biology of Ornamental Plants—3rd Edition
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 735
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physiological; molecular biology; ornamental plant
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Interests: horticulture crop germplasm and innovation; genomics; plant gene transcription and regulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ornamental plants play an important role in human life and health and are widely used in agriculture, industry, and medicine, with economic implications. They have therefore attracted considerable scientific interest. However, although most flowers have difficulty breeding and maintaining their desirable characteristics, their regulatory mechanisms have not been thoroughly studied. Therefore, the study of the physiology and molecular biology of ornamental plants can not only support the screening of candidate genes and targeted breeding but also help elucidate the regulatory mechanisms of ornamental flowers through classical molecular biology. Against this background, we have decided to launch this Special Issue, titled “Physiological and Molecular Biology of Ornamental Plants—3rd Edition”.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions from researchers studying the physiological and molecular biology of ornamental plants. We encourage the submission of original research articles.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Biotechnological or physiological research into ornamental plants;
- Gene editing of ornamental traits;
- Molecular regulatory mechanisms of ornamental traits;
- Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in ornamental plants;
- Biotic or abiotic stress-resistant gene function in ornamental plants;
- Integrative analysis of multiomics.
Prof. Dr. Caiyun Wang
Dr. Tuo Zeng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ornamental traits
- biotechnology
- multiomics
- gene regulatory
- secondary metabolites
- gene editing
- stress tolerance
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