TY - BOOK ID - 145306345 TI - Breeding, Genetics and Genomics of Ornamental Plants AU - Van Huylenbroeck, Johan AU - Leonhardt, Kenneth W. AU - Amore, Teresita D. AU - Bhattarai, Krishna PY - 2022 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Technology: general issues KW - Biotechnology KW - Acer buergerianum KW - Acer ginnala KW - Acer platanoides KW - Acer tataricum ssp. ginnala KW - ploidy manipulation KW - sterility KW - Hydrangea macrophylla KW - SSR KW - SNP KW - linkage map KW - flower senescence KW - nuclease KW - nutrient deficiency KW - petals KW - programmed cell death KW - virus induced gene silencing KW - bolting KW - cut flower KW - germinal pore KW - ornamental plant KW - polyploidy periclinal chimera KW - Plumbaginaceae KW - polyploidy breeding KW - cold hardiness KW - LT50 KW - sucrose KW - oligosaccharides KW - soluble sugar metabolism KW - gene expression KW - breeding KW - geophytes KW - interspecific cross KW - plant hormone treatment KW - pollen-pistil interaction KW - pre-zygotic barrier KW - Ranunculaceae KW - Acer buergerianum KW - Acer ginnala KW - Acer platanoides KW - Acer tataricum ssp. ginnala KW - ploidy manipulation KW - sterility KW - Hydrangea macrophylla KW - SSR KW - SNP KW - linkage map KW - flower senescence KW - nuclease KW - nutrient deficiency KW - petals KW - programmed cell death KW - virus induced gene silencing KW - bolting KW - cut flower KW - germinal pore KW - ornamental plant KW - polyploidy periclinal chimera KW - Plumbaginaceae KW - polyploidy breeding KW - cold hardiness KW - LT50 KW - sucrose KW - oligosaccharides KW - soluble sugar metabolism KW - gene expression KW - breeding KW - geophytes KW - interspecific cross KW - plant hormone treatment KW - pollen-pistil interaction KW - pre-zygotic barrier KW - Ranunculaceae UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145306345 AB - Ornamental crops account for more than US $42 billion globally. With the exception of few floral species, limited genetic, genomic, and breeding information is publicly available, owing to the fact that the majority of breeding work is performed by the private sector. Public research programs are increasingly participating in ornamental cultivar development and genetic studies. With lower sequencing costs, genomic information of non-model species including ornamental crops is continuously becoming available. Ornamental breeding utilizes a wide array of breeding strategies ranging from traditional crossing and selection methods to the use of next-generation sequencing in genomics and transcriptomics for gene identification and trait development. A continuing search of new species for the ornamentals industry has resulted in the utilization of tools that increase diversity and in the development of alternative methods for obtaining new crops by achieving interspecific and intergeneric crosses. This Special Issue aimed to present papers on new breeding methods, novel cultivars and species entering the ornamental industry, the identification of genes conferring novel traits, technological developments in ornamentals research, and the use of next-generation sequencing to improve ornamental plants. ER -