New Insights into Understanding Aspects of Plant Development in Horticultural Crops
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: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 9597
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant breeding flower development; inflorescence; morphology; ontogeny; floral evolution; pollination; plant genetics
Interests: plant physiology and biochemistry; mechanisms of plant tolerance; plant-microorganism interaction; photosynthesis and assimilate translocation; plant productivity; plant biotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For millennia, the breeding of horticultural plants was carried out as a matter of art or intuition without involving scientific knowledge. As a result, hundreds of fine cultivars of fruit trees, vegetables, and ornamental plants appeared. These treasures were additionally expanded later, when breeding processes were strengthened with the Mendelian principles of heredity and knowledge on plant physiology. The resulting diversity of horticultural crops, in addition to serving as a source of food and beauty, can be used to further investigate mechanisms of development of plant organisms. Although the key principles of plant development and its regulation were initially dissected in Arabidopsis thaliana, there are still many aspects which cannot be studied through the use of this convenient model. That is why it is of both practical and fundamental significance to explore developmental processes and their control in horticultural crops, such as gerbera, vegetable peas, or apple trees. This becomes more and more effective with the ongoing generation of new methods, such as electron microscopy, whole-genome or transcriptome sequencing, bioinformatics, quantitative methods in physiology, or automated phenotyping. The obtained results can be applied for further improvement in horticultural crops via marker-assisted selection and other contemporary approaches.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions from researchers who work with plant development and its regulation using horticultural crops (vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, and ornamental plants).
Dr. Andrey A. Sinjushin
Dr. Irina Kiseleva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- developmental genetics
- homeosis
- meristem
- ontogeny
- phytohormones
- plant development