Overview

Horticultural Science Abstracts is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research on horticultural crops, from genetic resources to gene expression, and propagation to storage.

Developed from CAB Abstracts, the original applied life sciences database, Horticultural Science Abstracts' coverage includes genetic resources, breeding, propagation, climate, crop management, pests and diseases, plant physiology, crop quality, storage and marketing.

Each week, Horticultural Science Abstracts delivers all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books on horticultural science.

The database includes a fully searchable backfile to 1990. With over 580,000 research summaries and over 34,000 records added to the database each year, Horticultural Science Abstracts brings a wealth of current and seminal research in horticultural science to your fingertips!

Horticultural Science Abstracts is updated weekly online, it is also available in print, delivered monthly

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Coverage

Horticultural Research
Basic and applied research, new experimental and practical techniques including:

• Botany
• Taxonomy
• Plant genetic resources
• Breeding and selection for horticultural traits
• GMOs
• New cultivars
• Cultivar trials
• Propagation
• In vitro culture
• Greenhouse technology
• Crop management
• Soils and nutrition
• Crop protection (biological, chemical and physical control methods and IPM)
• Pest and disease forecasting and surveys
• Organic and sustainable farming
• Orchard and vineyard ecology
• Climate, pollution and stress responses
• Physiological and biochemical aspects of growth and development
• Gene expression
• Growth models
• Harvesting and handling
• Storage and postharvest technology
• Crop quality (including food safety)
• Horticulture in rural economies

Temperate, subtropical and tropical fruits and nuts (including rare tropical fruits and new crops

Vegetables
covering:

• Fruit vegetables, leafy vegetables and stem vegetables
• Mushrooms and other edible fungi
• Grain legumes grown for pod consumption
• Bamboo shoots, bean and alfalfa sprouts
• Seaweeds and other vegetable algae

Ornamental plants , new ornamental species and wild plants with potential for ornamental cultivation
including the following:

• Annual and herbaceous plants
• Ornamental bulbs
• Foliage plants
• Ferns, cacti and succulents
• Aquatic plants
• Orchids
• Lawns and turf 
• Ornamental palms
• Ornamental woody plants
• Amenity trees
• Plants grown for cut flower, cut folliage and pot plant production 
• Lower plants with ornamental value

Hard fibre plants
including abaca, agave, furcraea and pineapple fibre

Perennial oil crops
covering coconuts, oil palms, jojoba and all perennial crops grown for oil production including current and potential biofuels such as jatropha

Stimulant plants and beverage crops
including tea, coffee, cocoa and cola

Rubber plants - Hevea and guayule

Essential oil plants, culinary herb and spice plants

Medicinal plants

Minor industrial and other crops
Including: 

• Sugarcane
• Crops grown for sweeteners, waxes, resins and fish poisons
• Pesticidal plants
• Wild plants with horticultural potential
• Ethnobotanical uses of plants

Updates to this list are produced every three months. Further improvements to the list are planned, including designation of Open Access publications.

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