Achieving sustainable cultivation of ornamental plants
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- Strong focus on environmental physiology, abiotic stress and breeding more abiotic stress-resistant varieties
- Reviews range of advanced marker-assisted breeding techniques, including gene editing
- Discusses key advances in the value chain to improve resource use for more sustainable production
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About Emeritus Professor Michael Reid
Dr Michael Reid is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Horticulture in the University of California-Davis, USA. Professor Reid is also Leader for Technology and Innovation at the US Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture which seeks to support smallholder horticulture in the developing world. He has an international reputation for his work on understanding senescence in cut flowers and how this understanding can be used to maintain post-harvest quality. Amongst his Awards are the Alex Laurie Award from the American Society for Horticultural Science and the Alan Armitage Award from the Speciality Cut Flower Growers Association. He has authored over 250 publications, is former Editor-in-Chief of Scientia Horticulturae and has worked with growers in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Central and South America as well as in the USA.
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