The biostimulant segment is becoming increasingly important worldwide. One of the reasons for this is that fewer plant protection products are placed on the market in the European Union, and environmental sustainability also plays an important role i...
Biodiversity conservation is a key factor in meeting sustainable development goals. This is even more important in cities, where green spaces are becoming increasingly scarce. This study analyzes Kinshasa’s proliferating ornamental plant nurser...
Ornamental horticulture businesses in the United States (U.S.) face challenges to stay economically viable, particularly in rural areas. Marketing with new-media tools (e.g., websites, HTML newsletters, social media, and blogs) has the potential to i...
The ornamental plant industry faces escalating threats from erratic climate patterns and post-harvest perishability. Phytomelatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) has emerged as a potent biostimulant capable of addressing these critical bottlenecks....
This paper presents a personalized and smart flowerpot for ornamental horticulture, integrating 3D printing and cloud technology to address existing design limitations and enable real-time monitoring of environmental parameters in plant cultivation....
Climate change increasingly threatens Mediterranean ornamental horticulture and green infrastructure through elevated temperatures, prolonged drought conditions, soil salinity, and more frequent extreme weather events. As a result, plant growth, phen...
Ornamentals are the most diversified products and fast-changing industry of horticulture. A new flower and ornamental plant market scenario is developing: remarkable opportunities are emerging, but more efforts are required by both public and private...
Ornamental horticulture represents one of the dominant pathways for the introduction of alien plant species and has played a central role in shaping current and future invasion dynamics. Many ornamental plants escape cultivation after long lag phases...
Floriculture and ornamental horticulture face pressure to improve environmental and social performance without undermining economic viability, yet evidence on how sustainability becomes economic value remains fragmented. This systematic mapping and b...
The increasing importance of sustainability in our society also affects horticulture. Ornamental plants are a multi-billion-euro business in Germany, with EUR 4.1 billion for potted plants, EUR 1.5 billion for fruit/ornamental shrubs as well as cut f...
Ornamental horticulture and breeding, as well as urban landscape architecture, are facing increasing challenges driven by an intensely changing climate and urbanisation. The expansion of cities should be combined with an overall growth of green space...
Ornamental plants are often used in indoor environments as part of biophilic design to improve the health and wellbeing of occupants, and to support sustainable, green architecture. Unfortunately, many plants do not thrive and need to be continuously...
Datura species are valued ornamentals but contain toxic tropane alkaloids (TAs) like hyoscyamine and scopolamine, which restrict their safe horticultural use. To address this, we developed a genome editing platform in Datura inoxia for creating non-t...
Musa haekkinenii is a compact wild banana species with emerging value in ornamental horticulture, yet its adaptive responses to environmental factors remain underexplored. This study investigated the morpho-physiological and anatomical responses of M...
Lilium species produce some of the most commercially valuable ornamental flowers in the world, characterized by their attractiveness and high demand in cut flower markets. However, it is necessary to strengthen the competitiveness of this sector in t...
Bemisia tabaci is a key pest of horticultural, fibre and ornamental crops worldwide, primarily as a vector of plant viruses. In Italy, B. tabaci has established since the 1980s–1990s in southern regions as well as in Sicily and Sardinia. Recent repor...
Curcuma alismatifolia (Zingiberaceae) is an ornamental species with high economic value due to its recent rise in popularity among floriculturists. Cultivars within this species have mixed genetic backgrounds from multiple hybridization events and ca...
This paper summarizes the estimates of the total changes in sales, expenses, and income of participants of the horticulture research and extension programs at the Mississippi State University—Coastal Research and Extension Center for the past five ye...
Many cultivars of annual ornamental horticulture have great phenotypic qualities but are less tolerant to the effects of current climate change and urbanization. A good example of this in Hungarian ornamental breeding is the Rudbeckia hirta cultivar...
Background: Cymbidium kanran ‘Zhushalan’ is a famous traditional Chinese orchid with high ornamental and economic value. As its market expands, there is a need to improve its key horticultural traits and stress resistance. Unfortunately,...
This study examined the effects of different LED light spectra on the in vitro development of plantlets of Bletilla striata (Orchidaceae), a frost-hardy ornamental orchid with increasing horticultural relevance outside its native East Asian range. Th...
This paper summarizes opinions on the economic impacts of horticulture research and extension at the Mississippi State University, Coastal Research and Extension Center. More than 8400 horticulture producers, master gardeners, research and extension...
The production of greenhouse ornamentals relies on high fertilizer inputs to meet scheduling deadlines and quality standards, but overfertilization has negative environmental impacts. The goals of this study were to identify plant-growth-promoting rh...
Vegetable and ornamental crops require high input demand to adequately support their standard commercial quality and yield. For these crops, a very high level of agronomic use efficiency of many productive factors can be achieved in soilless culture....
Pyrus calleryana Decne. (Callery pear) includes cultivars that in the United States are popular ornamentals in commercial and residential landscapes. Last few decades, this species has increasingly naturalized across portions of the eastern and south...
Gardening is a popular pastime for people from all walks of life in Yangon, the most populous city of Myanmar and its former capital. The cultivation of ornamental plants has continued uninterrupted despite decades of social and political crises that...
Water scarcity challenges floriculture, which depends on quality irrigation for ornamental value. This study assessed short-term salinity tolerance in eight Asteraceae species by measuring physiological (proline levels, antioxidant enzyme activity) a...
This study investigated the sustainability challenges and the adoption of sustainability innovations along the value chain of flowering potted plants supplying the German market. Data was collected through eighteen in-depths interviews with chain act...
The ecosystem services (ES) and human well-being are keywords that guide the Italian strategy on urban greening. The development of ES priorities linked to specific land uses help to guide the drafting of management plans. The aim of the research was...
Impervious surfaces create heterogeneous planting sites for urban trees, but whether crown-scale sealing is associated jointly with leaf economics and reproductive dispersal morphology remains unclear. We aimed to test these associations in mature fe...
Microalgae-based biostimulants may help reduce inputs in protected ornamental production, yet evidence across multiple growing seasons remains limited. We conducted a three-year polytunnel trial with six Pelargonium cultivars and applied two strains...
Although greenhouse production is an especially intensive form of agricultural production, horticultural products have not been subject to many carbon footprint studies. This study examines the poinsettia, a relevant greenhouse plant in the market. I...
Light is a fundamental environmental parameter for plant growth and development because it provides an energy source for carbon fixation during photosynthesis and regulates many other physiological processes through its signaling. In indoor horticult...
Lily (Lilium spp.) is a widely cultivated horticultural crop that has high ornamental and commercial value but also the serious problem of pollen pollution. However, mechanisms of anther dehiscence in lily remain largely unknown. In this study, the m...
Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida) is an important ornamental and economic horticultural plant. However, the lack of molecular markers has limited the development and utilization of hawthorn germplasm resources. Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) d...
Enhancing the growth and productivity of ornamental and horticultural plants is a major function of plant extracts and macronutrient elements. The growth properties of Artemisia abrotanum plants were evaluated in two successive seasons as affected by...
The ornamental plant is one of the important horticultural commodities in Indonesia, but its development differs from that of other horticultural commodities, such as vegetable and fruit plants. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has been ongoing since ear...
Ornamental horticulture is an important branch of horticulture addressed to grow and market plants or cut flowers used for decorative purposes and landscape design [...]
The neglected and underutilized plants (NUPs) have never been mainstreamed by researchers, politicians and stakeholders for sustainable exploitation in the ornamental-horticultural sector. This study focused on 399 local endemic plants of three Medit...
Although a large number of studies describe sustainability in horticulture for individual crops or use individual sustainability characteristics as examples, there is still a lack of information on what consumers regard as being the relevant criteria...
Horticultural crops play a vital role in global food security, medicine, ornamental decoration, and environmental sustainability [...]
The microbiological safety of horticultural plants (vegetables, fruits, spices, flowers, other edible crops, ornamental plants, etc [...]
The role of horticultural crops (fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals) is vital globally, not only for nutrition, but also for economic and cultural value [...]
The characteristic growth habit, abundant green foliage, and aromatic inflorescences of cannabis provide the plant with an ideal profile as an ornamental plant. However, due to legal barriers, the horticulture industry has yet to consider the ornamen...
This paper investigates and systematizes planning problems along the supply chain of small and medium-sized companies in the horticultural market of ornamental plants, perennials, and cut flowers. The sector faces considerable challenges such as mult...
Wild Iris plants are usually found in spontaneous flora, but due to their ornamental characteristics, they can also be used for ornamental purposes, which means that it is very important to find the perfect conditions for plant growth. This research...
Ornamental plants are constantly being improved by new technologies and cultivation systems to provide new, high-quality plant material for one of the most demanding markets in the horticulture sector [...]
Ornamental plants encompass herbaceous to woody trees with rich interspecific diversity and morphological divergence; they are also horticultural crops of great ornamental, economic, and ecological importance. Floral morphotype constitutes a pivotal...
Environmental concerns drive the search for sustainable organic alternatives in horticultural substrates. This review critically examines three agro-industry renewable byproducts—wood fiber, coffee silverskin, and brewer’s spent grain&mda...
Global reduction of chemical deposition into the environment is necessary. In protected horticulture, different strategies with biodegradable products are used to control pathogens. This review presents the available tools, especially for the managem...
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