Advanced Greenhouse Horticulture: New Technologies and Cultivation Practices

Dear Colleagues,

Greenhouse horticulture production is among the most intensive agricultural systems, requiring high inputs from growers. However, production practices have been changing due to the use of new technologies, increasing sensitivity to environmental issues, and consumer concerns about product quality, nutritional value (e.g., health-beneficial compound content), and safety (e.g., nitrate content), as well as adaptation to negative impacts of climate change.

The purpose of this Special Issue “Advanced Greenhouse Horticulture: New Technologies and Cultivation Practices” is to present innovative studies, tools, approaches, and techniques that have been successful in addressing some of these concerns, such as use of shadow nets, new substrates, floating systems, closed soiless growing systems, LED lighting, microenvironment modification, energy-saving technologies, soil and media health and properties, role of propagation material (traditional varieties, grafting, etc.), and any other innovation that has improved the efficiency and sustainability of greenhouse horticultural crops, for the production of high quality commodities.

Dr. Athanasios Koukounaras
Guest Editor

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