Strawberry cultivation is not popular in Bangladesh due to the unpredictable climatic conditions and lack of proper cultivars. Using somaclonal variation, several new promising selections were generated and evaluated for their flowering and fruiting ability, adaptability and sustainability. To induce variation, plants were regenerated using various tissue culture techniques. Our results suggest...

In recent years, the ongoing impact of COVID-19 epidemic, irregular closed school life and frequent online teaching have negatively impacted mental health academic performance many college students. Doing horticultural activities is an effective way to promote physical enhance performance. This paper explores relationship between participation, self-efficacy positive characters under perspectiv...

In this study, we provided horticultural therapy as an intervention to 54 adult women with earthquake-related stress from the disastrous Great East Japan Earthquake along the coastline of Miyagi Prefecture. After two months of horticultural intervention, scores on the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Positive Affect (PA), and the Japanese ...

Besides nutrient composition, the hydraulic performance of horticultural substrates is a main issue for evaluating their quality for horticultural purposes. Their water and air capacity and their suitability for transporting water are important hydraulic quality indicators. Shrinkage and water repellency could have a negative impact on storing and transporting water and solutes. The commonly us...

OBJECTIVES Objectives were to review the literature on horticultural therapy and describe the Danderyd Hospital Horticultural Therapy Garden and its associated horticultural therapy programme. DESIGN The literature review is based on the search words 'gardening', 'healing garden' and 'horticultural therapy'. The description is based on the second author's personal knowledge and popular-scient...

International trade of horticultural commodities is increasingly important in many regions of the world, yet import patterns of key horticultural crops are understudied in the agricultural economics literature. Using data between 1991 and 2005, we estimate the drivers of per capita import demand for six of the most highly traded horticultural commodities. The own price elasticity estimates were...

– 8 – In 1993 and 1994, many crosses were made with the goal of developing rootstocks with broad and durable nematode resistance, while improving horticultural characters such as rooting ability and shoot length. The parents of these crosses included a number of grape species known to be highly resistant to both root-knot and dagger nematodes. They included several forms of Vitis arizonica, V. ...

Hydrangea and Schizophragma are popular horticultural and ornamental plants. This study was designed to identify unknown accessions of Hydrangeaceae that have leaf morphological characters different from Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris and Schizophragma hydrangeoides in Jeju, Korea. A total of 29 accessions of Hydrangea and Schizophragma from the wild were collected and analyzed using rando...