The Global Floriculture Industry (eBook, ePUB)

Shifting Directions, New Trends, and Future Prospects
Redaktion: Hakeem, Khalid Rehman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new volume presents some of the latest research trends and areas of improvement to benefit the floriculture industry and to understand its future directions and prospects. The research addresses the global floriculture industry's shift from a traditional to a commercial focus. The global economy has spurred entrepreneurs to focus on the growing trend of exportoriented floriculture under controlled climatic conditions. The volume also looks at the role of plants in stabilizing the environment and the use of scientific knowledge through research that has changed the perspective of modern floriculture.

This new book is a valuable compilation of the latest research work and areas of improvement in floriculture today.

Key features:

• Provides an overview of the global floriculture industry
• Looks at the role of bulbous ornamentals
• Considers enhancing consumer-preferred traits in floriculture crops through genetic manipulation
• Discusses using ornamental plants to stabilize the environment

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000751567
• Artikelnr.: 60143441

Autorenporträt

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, and as a Fellow Researcher/Associate Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Global Floriculture Industry: Status and Future Prospects 2. Bulbous
Ornamentals: Role and Scope in Floriculture Industry 3. Micropropagation of
Tulipa Species 4. Ornamental Plants: Some Molecular Aspects
5. An Overview of the Pharmacological Properties and Potential Applications
of Lavender and Cumin 6. Enhancing Consumer Traits in Floriculture Crops
through Genetic Manipulation for Production of Skin Medico-Cosmetics 7.
Caragana, An Important Ornamental Plants in Stabilizing the Environment