Innovative and Sustainable Agronomic Configurations to Enhance Vegetable and Ornamental Crop Performances

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2024 | Viewed by 409

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences (SAAF), University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: agriculture; plant nutrition
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences (SAAF), University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: vegetable production; vegetable grafting; soilless cultivation; nutritional and nutraceutical vegetable fruit quality linked to cultivation conditions and practices; biofortification of leafy and fruiting vegetable crops, propagation of ornamental plants
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy
Interests: greenhouse crops; vegetables production; hydroponics and aquaponics; plant nutrition; microgreens; sprouts; edible flowers; functional foods; grafting; microbial and non-microbial biostimulants; biofortification; vegetable quality related to preharvest factors; LED; urban agriculture; organic farming
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Vegetable and ornamental sectors are facing the challenge of increasing production without compromising ecological resources. Green leafy and fruiting vegetables significantly contribute to human nutrition and health since they exert defensive roles against chronic illnesses. Concomitantly, ornamental crops have been progressively growing worldwide due to the upsurges in demand and market value, which are chiefly prevalent in several developing countries. This has led the international ornamental sector to become a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Intensive vegetable and ornamental productions along with climate change have amplified the need for the conversion toward more ecological and resilient production protocols. In this respect, pioneering crop management techniques that enhance crop yield and quality via more efficient application of agricultural inputs while decreasing nutrient losses, pesticide use, and greenhouse gas productions is crucial.

In the current Special Issue, we invite researchers and experts to contribute original research, critical reviews, and opinions exploring innovative tools/strategies to improve agriculture resources use efficiency and plant abiotic distress tolerance. Contributions on integrated and organic crop management, novel biostimulants, grafting, pest management, soilless culture, innovative greenhouse design and the design of other controlled environment systems, as well as, vertical farming are welcomed. Manuscripts related to the development of novel ornamental crops using mutagenesis, conventional breeding, genome editing, and genetic transformation technologies will be also taken into consideration.

Dr. Beppe Consentino
Dr. Leo Sabatino
Prof. Dr. Youssef Rouphael
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vegetable production
  • sustainable production protocols
  • stress tolerance strategies
  • cut flowers production
  • bedding plants
  • ornamental pot plants

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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