Ornamental Horticulture: Latest Cultivation Practices and Breeding Technologies / edited by Bhavya Bhargava, Pankaj Kumar, Vipasha Verma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhargava, Bhavya, editor.

Kumar, Pankaj (Biotechnology scientist), editor.

Verma, Vipasha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Landscape ecology.

Plant ecology.

Agronomy.

Landscape Ecology.

Plant Ecology.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture.

Landscape Ecology.

Plant Ecology.

Agronomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book has combined information on the most recent agricultural practices and breeding methods for ornamental crops. The applications and benefits of hydroponics systems over traditional soil culture growing systems are also discussed. The role of current breeding tactics, such as gene editing tools like CRISPR Cas9, in the development of ornamental crop traits has been debated. The specifics of omics approaches to combat biotic and abiotic stresses in ornamental plants using modern breeding have been thoroughly studied. The critical significance of epigenetic control in ornamental plant development is also highlighted. This book discusses the importance of microbes in sustainable floriculture. Domestication and culture of wild ornamentals have also been considered. This book compiles an in-depth understanding of globally leading cultivated ornamentals and the most important cultivated ornamentals in India. Also, the important domains, i.e., pests and diseases and management in ornamentals and the economic services of ornamental cultivation are discussed. The most recent advances in urban floriculture and the future of smart horticulture have been examined. Nanotechnology uses in ornamental horticulture have been exclusively discussed. This book is a ready reckoner of the advances made in the field of ornamental horticulture for the scientists, graduate students, research scholars, breeders, farmers, and market managers of public and private sectors. This book will establish potential links between inter-disciplinary topics of research, such as aspects of floriculture, plant biotechnology, microbiology, and nanotechnology. This book series will take research in floriculture to a new frontier. This book serves as an excellent guide to formulating public-private collaborative research for future innovation in the floriculture frontiers.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Gardening: An Overview and Introduction.-Chapter 2. Protected Cultivation of Floriculture Crops–Innovative Technologies and Future Challenges

Chapter 3. Ornamental plant breeding for improved floral attributes: entering a new era

Chapter 4. Molecular breeding in ornamental crops: current trends and future prospects in the genomic era

Chapter 5. Recent developments in soilless cultivation and their implications in floriculture

Chapter 6. Tissue culture mediated interventions in Ornamental plants: Methods and Application

Chapter 7. Micropropagation technology for improvement of ornamental plants

Chapter 8. Transgenic approaches for accelerating breeding of ornamental crops

Chapter 9. State of the art of omics technologies in Ornamental Plant Research

Chapter 10. Genome Editing in Ornamental Crops: Progress and Challenges

Chapter 11. Pre-harvest technologies; floriculture sustainability initiative

Chapter 12. Different pre-harvest factors and their role in the Floriculture

Chapter 13. Post-Harvest Technology for Commercial Floriculture

Chapter 14. Using wild plant species in ornamental horticulture – a possible future

Chapter 15. Green walls, green roofs, and urban city landscapes as nature-based ecological solutions

Chapter 16. Extension networks and floricultural advancement dissemination

Chapter 17. Nanotechnology in ornamentals: Current trends and future aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

981-9740-28-2