Advance in Breeding and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 1962
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetic diversity; medicinal and aromatic plants; organic farming
Interests: medicinal and aromatic plants; industrial crops; Mediterranean native plant resources; plant secondary metabolites; non-chemical weed control
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Dear Colleagues,
As the world population is growing, so is the demand for medicinal plants. Most medicinal plants are still wild-sourced, and thus the cultivation of medicinal plants is of signifcant importance to relieve pressure from wild populations, which are decreasing due to habitat loss, overharvesting and climate change. Domestication and breeding of medicinal plants play a vital role in ensuring industry has high-yielding genotypes with high content of certain secondary metabolites for cultivation. As the first step of the breeding characterisation of available genetic resources takes place, it is followed by traditional biotechnology and molecular biology methods to create new varieties. Once the superior genotypes are selected, cultivation techniques need to be developed. Both environmental conditions and applied agrotechnologies affect yield and quality, and a rise in the demand for organic and pesticide residue-free medicinal herbs adds to the challenges faced by agronomists. We welcome papers discussing the characterisation of wild accessions, breeding, propagation and cultivation of medicinal plants.
Dr. Ieva Mezaka
Dr. Alessandra Carrubba
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- genetic resources
- domestication
- yield improvement
- biotic and abiotic stress improvement
- secondary metabolites
- polyploidy induction
- biotechnology
- breeding
- in vitro micropropagation
- gene transformation
