Horticulture Journal covers news, research, technology and markets of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology.
Horticulture Conferences
The 29th International Horticultural Congress to be held in Brisbane, Australia in August 2014
The theme of the 2014 congress is "Horticulture - sustaining lives, livelihoods and landscapes". The 29th International Horticultural Congress will be held in Brisbane, Australia in August 2014. The Horticultural Congress is hosted by the Australian Society of Horticultural Science, the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science, and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, under the auspices of the International Society for Horticultural Science.
The 29th International Horticultural Congress is a world forum on all aspects of horticulture and horticultural science, held every four years and attracting more than 2,000 delegates.
Agritech Israel 2012, 18th International Agricultural Technology Exhibition
Agritech Israel 2012, the 18th International Agricultural Technology Exhibition, is one of the world's most important exhibitions in the fields of horticulture and agricultural technologies. The exhibition will be held May 15-17, 2012 at the Israel Trade Fairs and Convention Center in Tel Aviv
World Horticultural Expo FLORIADE 2012
Floriade 2012, World Horticultural Expo, April 5 - October 7, 2012, Venlo, Netherlands. Floriade is a World Horticultural Expo held once in a decade in the Netherlands. The world's most exquisite and exceptional flowers, plants, trees and fruit and vegetables to be presented at Florade 2012.
Horticulture Industry and Research
The scope of horticulture industry and research encompasses industry, government or educational institutions or private entities involved at different stages of plant propagation and cultivation for commercial, cultural or scientific purposes.
The horticulture industry professionls include but not limited to research scientists, cropping systems engineers, wholesale or retail business managers, propagators and tissue culture specialists (fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, and turf), crop inspectors, crop production advisers, extension specialists and plant breeders.
Horticulture as a science is based on such disciplines as biology, botany, entomology, chemistry, mathematics, genetics, physiology, statistics, computer science, and communications, garden design, planting design. Plant science and horticulture courses include: plant materials, plant propagation, tissue culture, crop production, post-harvest handling, plant breeding, pollination management, crop nutrition, entomology, plant pathology, economics, and business.
Horticultural activities in botanic gardens, greenhouses and nurseries range from preparing seeds and cuttings to growing fully mature plants.
Unlike agriculture which focuses on one primary crop, the horticulture encompasses a smaller scale of cultivation, using small plots of mixed crops rather than large fields of single crops. Also, horticultural cultivations generally include a wide variety of crops, even including fruit trees with ground crops.
Horticulture involves several fields:
- Olericulture includes the production and marketing of vegetables.
- Pomology includes the production and marketing of fruits.
- Viticulture includes the production and marketing of grapes.
- Landscape horticulture includes the production, marketing and maintenance of landscape plants.
- Oenology includes all aspects of wine and winemaking.
- Arboriculture is the study of, and the selection, planting, care, and removal of, individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
- Floriculture includes the production and marketing of floral crops.