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 1973. With over 1,100,000 research summaries and over 50,000 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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Essential oil plants, culinary herb and spice plants

Hard fibre plants

including abaca, agave, furcraea and pineapple fibre

Horticultural research

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

• breeding and selection for horticultural traits
• botany
• climate change, pollution and environmental stress
• crop quality (including food safety and nutritional value)
• crop management
• crop protection (biological, chemical and physical control methods and IPM)
• cultivar trials
• harvesting and handling
• horticulture in rural economies
• gene expression
• GM crops
• greenhouse technology
• growth models
• in vitro culture
• new cultivars
• organic and sustainable farming
• orchard and vineyard ecology
• pest and disease forecasting and surveys
• physiology and biochemistry of growth, development and ripening
• plant genetic resources
• propagation
• soils and nutrition
• storage and postharvest technology
• taxonomy
• Medicinal plants

Minor industrial and other crops, including:

• crops grown for sweeteners, waxes, resins and fish poisons
• ethnobotanical uses of plants
• pesticidal plants
• sugarcane
• wild plants with horticultural potential

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

• 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

Perennial oil crops

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

Rubber plants

hevea and guayule

Stimulant plants and beverage crops

Including tea, coffee, cocoa and cola

Temperate, subtropical and tropical fruits and nuts

Including rare tropical fruits and new crops

Vegetables

Including:

• bamboo shoots, bean and alfalfa sprouts
• fruit vegetables, leafy vegetables and stem vegetables
• grain legumes grown for pod consumption
• mushrooms and other edible fungi
• seaweeds and other vegetable algae

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