Ornamental Horticulture

CAB Direct (CABI's own platform)

Basic and applied research, and new experimental and practical techniques relating to:
 

• • - breeding
  - botany and morphology
• • • • - climate, pollution and stress responses
      - crop protection (including biological, chemical, cultural and physical control methods)
    • - cultivar trials
  • - cut flower, cut foliage and pot plant production
  - genetics
• • • - greenhouse technology
    • - growth models
    • - harvesting and handling
    - in vitro culture
  - new cultivars
• • - nursery and outdoor production
  • - physiological and biochemical aspects of growth, development and senescence
  - product quality
• - propagation
• - soils and nutrition
• • - taxonomy
• - vase life of cut flowers 
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Ornamental plants, new ornamental species and wild plants with potential for ornamental cultivation, including:

• • - amenity trees
  - annual and herbaceous plants
• • • - aquatic plants (such as species of Nelumbo, Nuphar and Typha)
    - cacti and succulents
• • - ferns
  - foliage plants
• • - lawns and turf (individual species, and turf used in sports grounds and golf courses)
  • - lower plants with ornamental value
  - orchids
• • - ornamental bulbs (and plants from corms, rhizomes and tubers)
• - ornamental palms
• - ornamental woody plants
• - plants grown for cut flowers, cut folliage and pot plant production

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