In Vitro Culture Techniques for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Dear Colleagues,

Biotic and abiotic stresses represent a serious threat to agriculture. Therefore, efforts to develop stress-resistant and/or -tolerant plants are critical for increasing crop productivity. In recent years, plant tissue culture has represented a fundamental tool not only for the multiplication of recalcitrant species and genetic improvement but also for overcoming abiotic stress.

This Special Issue entitled “In Vitro Culture Techniques for Abiotic Stress Tolerance” will focus on the selection of manuscripts of high scientific and methodological quality that demonstrate major innovative steps and advances or improvements in existing techniques, or that shed light on new applications of plant breeding in vitro for overcoming abiotic stresses and their impact on agriculture.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Fundamental research on the molecular and physiological responses of plant cells and tissues grown in vitro and subjected to various abiotic stresses.
• Micropropagation of ornamental, horticultural, fruit, and herbaceous plants.
• Tissue culture in long-term preservation and storage of plants.
• Soil components that improve plant response to abiotic stress.
• Influence of light, temperature, and salinity on the development of micropropagated plants.
• Metabolite production in stressed plant tissue culture systems.
• In vitro polyploidization techniques for overcoming abiotic stresses.
• Production of synthetic seeds to overcome abiotic stress.
• In vitro technology for large-scale production of horticultural, herbaceous, and fruit plants.
• Quality of micropropagated plants.
• Ex vitro acclimatization and cultivation of plants.

Dr. Nicolo Iacuzzi
Dr. Annalisa Marchese
Dr. Marcello Airò
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Horticulturae is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• biotic and abiotic stress
• stress tolerance
• in vitro technology
• somatic embryogenesis
• gametic embryognesis
• haploid and doubled haploid culture
• synthetic seed
• micrografting
• callus culture
• plant growth regulators
• microshoots
• ex vitro acclimatization
• in vitro seed germination
• hairy roots culture
• in vitro storage germplasm
• plant biotechnology
• plant genetics
• DNA sequencing
• genomics
• molecular markers
• microsatellites
• genotyping
• primer sequencing
• plant breeding
• genetic diversity
• SSR
• quantitative trait loci mapping
• microsatellite genotyping
• cell biology
• DNA fingerprints
• plant molecular genetics