The scope of the journal is to provide new information or points of view concerning the production and quality of horticultural crop species including fruit, vegetable, herbal, spice, ornamental and landscape plants. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that, in compliance with the above, have as a horticulture-related theme one or more of the following topics:
- Organic production;
- Genetics, genomics, breeding, and biotechnology;
- Physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology;
- Plant interactions with pests and pathogens;
- Artificial intelligence and lab-on-a-chip for disease detection;
- Effects of abiotic stresses;
- Plant growth regulators and biostimulants;
- Adaptation to climate change;
- Nutritional and phytochemical composition;
- Post-harvest physiology and technology;
- Propagation and seed production;
- Urban horticulture;
- Small holder production systems;
- Precision horticulture;
- Crop modeling;
- Greenhouses and plant factories with artificial light;
- Sustainable cultivation;
- Biodiversity;
- Waste management;
- Economics and marketing;
- Perception of horticulture, outreach, and education.
Submissions to Horticulturae must specifically concern horticultural science; in this context, excellent manuscripts may be rejected if they involve cereal, forestry, industrial and oleaginous crops, or if they include physiological, molecular, phyto-pathological and food technology studies without a clear link, significance, or application to horticulture. |
Major horticultural topic areas covering fruit, vegetable, ornamental, nursery and landscape, herbal, and spice crops including, but not limited to:
- Organic production
- Genetics, genomics, breeding, and biotechnology
- Physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology
- Plant interactions with pests and pathogens
- Effects of abiotic stresses
- Adaptation of horticultural species to climate change
- Pre- and post-harvest quality
- Nutritional and phytochemical composition
- Product processing, storage, and transport
- Propagation and seed production
- Urban horticulture
- Smallholder production systems
- Precision horticulture and technological innovation
- Modeling plant growth and productivity
- Greenhouses and plant factories with artificial light
- Reducing energy input in the production chain
- Photovoltaic applications on horticultural crops
- Horticultural biodiversity
- Waste management
- Economics and marketing
- Perception of horticulture, outreach, and education
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