Innovations in Greenhouse Horticulture for Producing More With Less
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 23073
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Interests: protected cultivation; soilless culture and growing media; vegetable grafting; environmental stress physiology
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Interests: plant-microbe interaction; biostimulants; ornamental plants; mycorrhiza; quality and physio-biochemical changes in plants
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ever-increasing demands for nutritious foods under fast declining natural resources as well as due to rising threats of climate change instigating to adopt less risky and more resource use efficient production system. Growing high-value horticultural crops (fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops) under protective environments is one of the most viable options to realize high yield with superior quality produce from the given area and water resource, with lesser penalties for the environment. In fact, protected cultivation serves as a single-window solution for many productions related problems that crops often face in conventional open cultivation. In recent years, this sector is getting special impetus to sustainably meet the escalating world food demands vis à vis diminishing natural resources. A sizable number of scientists in the public and private sectors are engaged in providing innovative solutions for faster evolutionary growth of the greenhouse horticulture industry around the globe. Greenhouse cultivation technology is in fact a package technology involving many inter-disciplinary researches, hence the roles of researchers from horticulture and allied sectors are crucial in its overall development.
This Special Issue ‘Innovations in greenhouse horticulture for producing more with less’ intends to publish research and review papers focusing on recent scientific progress and innovations made in greenhouse horticulture towards achieving higher production of horticultural crops from lesser use of inputs/resources (area, water, nutrient, energy, manpower, etc.). We welcome papers on the topic covering ‘type of protective structure (hi-tech greenhouse to low-cost plastic/net cover and mulching), microclimate management (temperature, relative humidity, VPD, CO2, radiation and LED lighting, etc.) and cultivation system (soil or soilless-hydroponics or vertical farming), crop modeling and phenotyping, new cultivars or rootstocks, growing media, organic and inorganic nutrient sources, fertigation and irrigation strategies, and IoT in greenhouse operation. In addition, plant growth, physio-biochemistry and molecular responses associated with different biotic and abiotic stressors, and integration of biostimulants and plant growth-promoting compounds, and microorganisms with plants that help improve horticultural crops productivity and stress tolerance.
Dr. Pradeep Kumar
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Colla
Dr. Mariateresa Cardarelli
Dr. Pratapsingh Khapte
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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protective cover and design
- water, nutrient, and energy use efficiency
- vertical farming and hydroponics
- substrates/ growing media
- advances in irrigation and fertigation
- rootstocks / grafting
- biostimulants and growth regulators
- organic greenhouse cultivation
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