In recent times, with the globalization of markets, shrinking land and climate change, food basket diversification, increase in demand for nutrient-rich food, protected cultivation high-value crops (HVCs) have assumed a pivotal role augmenting higher crop productivity profitability enhancing nutritional security growing population. this context, study was undertaken to analyze impact horticultu...

Genome editing has emerged as a powerful tool for accelerating crop improvement in horticultural crops by enabling precise modifications to their genetic makeup. This review provides an in-depth exploration of the applications, methodologies, and potential impacts genome horticulture. The focuses on three major tools horticulture, CRISPR-Cas9, TALENs, ZFNs. underlying mechanisms, challenges ass...

Human individuals require at least 20 inorganic elements ('minerals') for normal functioning. However, much of the world's population is probably deficient in one or more essential minerals and at increased risk of physiological disorders. Addressing these 'hidden hungers' is a challenge for the nutrition and agriculture sectors. Mineral deficiencies among populations are typically identified f...

With the nursery and garden center industry expanding, it is important to keep the consumer returning year after year for the newest, most exciting and most unusual species. Perennial nursery crops are one sector of the nursery market that has grown rapidly due to the addition of new species. Though orchids are not new to the horticultural trade, these fascinating plants have long been in the d...

Understanding the fundamental nature of a molecular process or a biological pathway is often a catalyst for the development of new technologies in biology. Indeed, studies from late 1990s to early 2000s have uncovered multiple overlapping but functionally distinct RNA silencing pathways in plants, including the posttranscriptional microRNA and small interfering RNA pathways and the transcriptio...