Book Description:
Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation, including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology. Horticulture usually refers to gardening on a smaller scale, while agriculture refers to the large-scale cultivation of crops. This book presents topical data on horticulture including: the mechanisms of cadmium toxicity in crops, using grafting techniques at the seedling stage to overcome soil-borne diseases, the application of biotechnology tools in the conservation of critically endangered plant species, salinity tolerance of ornamental horticultural species, and others.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Mechanisms of Cadmium Toxicity in Crops: A Review
(Conceição Santos, Marta Monteiro, Maria Celeste Dias, Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology and Cytometry,1-40

Breeding sweet corn: eating quality vs. agronomic performance ^
(Bernardo Ordás, Amando Ordás, Pedro Revilla, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), pp. 41-79

Grafting: An Environmentally Friendly Technique to Overcome Soil-Borne Diseases and Improve the Out of Season Production of Watermelon, Cucumber and Melon
(Fotios A. Bletsos, Harold C. Passam, National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF), Agricultural Research Centre of Northern Greece, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece, and others), pp. 81-120

Application of Biotechnology Tools in the Conservation and Characterization of Critically Endangered Ancient Moroccan Species Argania spinosa (Sapotaceae)
(Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Abdellatif Hafidi, Abel Piqueras, Khalid Majourhat, Department of Plant Breeding, CEBAS-CSIC, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain, and others), pp. 121-142

Irrigating Ornamental Horticultural Plants and Crops with Saline and Alternative Water Sources
(Genhua Niu, Raul I. Cabrera, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at El Paso, Texas A&M University System, El Paso, Texas, and others), pp. 143-160

Deficit irrigation strategies: use of stress physiology knowledge to increase water use efficency in tomato and potato ^
(Radmila Stikić, Sladjana Savić, Zorica Jovanović, Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Fulai Liu and Christian R. Jensen, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Serbia), pp. 161-177

High Temperature Stress Tolerance and the Changes in Antioxidative Ability in Mycorrhizal Strawberry Plants
(Yoichi Matsubara, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan), pp. 179-192

In Vitro Propagation of the Bishop’s Hat, Epimedium alpinum L.
(Snježana Mihaljević, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia), pp. 193-201

Development of a Safe New Cultivation System for Apples Based on S-RNase and SSR Information
(Shogo Matsumoto, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan), pp. 203-211

Heritability and correlations among ornamental traits of pansy (Viola wittrokiana)^
(Jian Wang, Man Zhu Bao, Key laboratory of Tropical Horticultural Plant Biological Resources, Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture and Garden Sciences, Hainan University, Danzhou, 571737, China), pp. 213-221

Developments in Applying Biotechnology Tools in Environmental Engineering
(Bing-Gang Ma, Xiao-Yan Lu, Zhi-Ping Wu, Hu-Ping Zhang, Key Oasis Eco-Agriculture Laboratory of Xinjiang Production and Construction Group, Dept. of Horticulture, Agricultural College, Shihezi University, Shihezi, People’s Republic of China)*, pp. 223-256

Index