Horticultural Science, 2025 (vol. 52), issue 1
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Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1) 
Harnessing CRISPR/Cas9 system to engineer disease resistance in solanaceous crops: Current progress and future prospectsReview
Shiuli Ahmed, Wan Aina Sakeenah Wan Azizan, Farahziatul Roshidah Nazri, Muhammad Asyraf Md Hatta
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):1-14 | DOI: 10.17221/19/2024-HORTSCI
Crops belonging to the Solanaceae family, including potato, tomato, pepper, and tobacco possess considerable economic importance worldwide. However, their production is continuously under threat from plant pathogens. Farmers typically rely on resistant cultivars carrying one or several disease resistance (R) genes introduced through conventional breeding. Over time, a competitive host-pathogen coevolution can lead to major resistance breakdown. Genome editing is a significant research tool and avenue for the genetic improvement of crop species, as it enables the precise introduction of targeted genetic changes. This technology has been...
A review on crop improvement strategies and breeding methods in ornamental annualsReview
R Priyadharsini, K R Rajadurai, A Beaulah, M Madhan Mohan, K Venkatesan, S Rajesh
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):15-32 | DOI: 10.17221/31/2024-HORTSCI
The availability of a broad variety of cultivars in many ornamental species has increased recently, in particular for attractive annuals, which are valued commercially for their use as cut flowers, potted plants, loose flowers, and in landscape gardening. The breeding of ornamental plants in the current scenario is a challenging endeavour with constantly evolving new obstacles. Modern genomic technologies provide prospects for improved precision breeding and selection for characteristics that are more difficult to determine. Traditionally, ornamental breeding has been focused on increasing resistance to biotic or abiotic stress, novelty, yield, and...
Effect of genotype and leader type on benzyladenine induced sylleptic branching in apple nursery treesOriginal Paper
Kishan Lal Kumawat, Wasim Hassan Raja, Javid Iqbal Mir, Susheel Kumar Raina
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):33-41 | DOI: 10.17221/139/2023-HORTSCI
The planting of branched nursery trees is an essential component of most high-density orchard planting systems to induce precocity. However, in apples, most cultivars do not produce the desired numbers of sylleptic shoots naturally due to the presence of apical dominance. Benzyladenine (BA) applications alter the apical dominance and consequently encourage sylleptic shoot formation in nursery trees. However, the response to an exogenous BA application can vary with the genotype. Currently, most nurseries produce branched apple nursery trees using the renewal leader method. However, apart from the renewal leader method, branched nursery trees can also...
Selection of high-quality tree peony varieties suitable for the south Yangtze River areaOriginal Paper
Zijian Li, Yuxuan Zhu, Xinai Yang, Yajun Xiang, Ying Zhang, Hongbing Wang, Zheng Wang, Shuiyan Yu, Yonghong Hu
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):42-52 | DOI: 10.17221/11/2024-HORTSCI
To select tree peony varieties with high ornamental value suitable for the hot and humid environment of the south Yangtze River area, 74 tree peony varieties from the Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai were selected as experimental materials. The experiment involved initial selection for leaf humidity and heat tolerance, assessing the ornamental value during the flowering period of the following year and measuring a series of indicators such as the relative chlorophyll content of the leaves. Methods including principal component analysis, cluster analysis, and comprehensive membership function were employed. The results indicated that among the...
Determination of the variation in volatile components during the ripening of Sorbus domestica L. fruitOriginal Paper
Engin Gür, Mehmet Ali Gündoğdu, Tuba Baºaran
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):53-60 | DOI: 10.17221/157/2023-HORTSCI
Sorbus domestica L. is a deciduous shrub-like tree in the Rosaceae family that reaches different heights (3–25 m). The service tree commonly grows in the Marmara region, Central and Western Black Sea regions, and Central Anatolia in Türkiye. The fruit of the service tree called Sorbus domestica, has an essential place in regards to human health in terms of its antioxidant values. The aroma components and phenolic compounds it contains display a variety of physiological traits. This study was carried out to determine the changes in the pomological characteristics and volatile compounds of Sorbus domestica L. fruits in the...
Simple and robust sex determination in papaya (Carica papaya L.) cultivars using SCAR markerOriginal Paper
K Soumiya, I Muthuvel, C Kavitha, K Chandrakumar, K A Shanmugasundaram, N Manikanda Boopathi
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):61-66 | DOI: 10.17221/145/2023-HORTSCI
For viable papaya production, more hermaphrodite plants are needed than male and female (though they produce inferior fruits). To this end, the sex of the plants must be ascertained early in their growth cycle, which is not possible with conventional methods. Molecular marker has shown its utility for this purpose, and in this study, 100 seedlings of the CO 7 gynodioecious variety and 100 seedlings of the CO 8 dioecious variety that were released from this university were analysed for their sex using the RAPD-SCAR (randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-sequence characterised amplified region) marker, T12. In those lines under investigation, the T12 marker’s...
Identification and validation of stem rot disease resistance genes in passion fruit (Passiflora edulis)Original Paper
Yanyan Wu, Guoying Shi, Junniu Zhou, Qinglan Tian, Jieyun Liu, Weihua Huang, Xiuzhong Xia, Haifei Mou, Xinghai Yang
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):67-80 | DOI: 10.17221/161/2023-HORTSCI
Stem rot disease poses a significant challenge in passion fruit production, necessitating the identification of resistant genes for the development of stem rot resistant varieties. In this study, we conducted artificial inoculation of Fusarium solani on leaves of two passion fruit varieties, ‘Huangjinguo’ and ‘Ziguo 7’. Leaf samples were collected at 0 h, 24 h, and 48 h post-inoculation for RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis, and 3 370, 4 464, and 3 974 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified at these stages. Gene Ontology (GO) analysis revealed associations with functions such as response to reactive oxygen...
Effect of treatment of narcissus bulbs with hydrogen peroxide with silver and fungicides on plant growth and developmentOriginal Paper
Adam Tadeusz Wojdy³a, Jacek Stanislaw Nowak, Jan Bocianowski, Artur Kowalski, Jacek Wi¶niewski, Emilia Waszkiewicz
Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2025, 52(1):81-90 | DOI: 10.17221/43/2024-HORTSCI
The aim of the research was to demonstrate the possibility of using hydrogen peroxide with silver (H2O2-Ag+) and selected fungicides for treating narcissus bulbs and their impact on plant growth and development. In the experiments were used compounds such as hydrogen peroxide with silver (H2O2-Ag+) and captan (Biszop 80 WG), pyraclostrobin + boscalid (Signum 33 WG) and methyl thiophanate + tetraconazole (Yamato 303 SE) to soak narcissus bulbs before planting for the period of 20 minutes. The research showed that stimulation of growth and development by some of the tested concentrations of H2O2-Ag+...