Production and Cultivation of Microgreens
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Vegetable Production Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2025 | Viewed by 779
Special Issue Editors
Interests: horticulture, genetics and breeding of vegetables; sustainable agriculture; GxE interactions
Interests: sustainable vegetable production; hydroponics; plant nutrition; agronomic biofortification; vegetable quality
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Interests: plant tissue culture; plant regeneration; somatic embryogenesis; light treatments; salt stress; genes expression
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, due to the growing interest in healthy and easily available food, microgreens have become an important topic of research in many disciplines (agriculture, nutrition, astronautics, etc.). Microgreens represent a new type of agriculture with many benefits (saving time and space, reducing the impact of external environmental conditions, etc.). Microgreens are plants in the first stage of development (7–14 days after germination) produced from vegetable, herb or cereal seeds in different growing media. It is known that microgreens are considered the 21st century equivalent of food with a high level of phytochemicals (carotenoids, polyphenols, etc.) and excellent nutritional and organoleptic quality.
The purpose of this Special Issue "Production and Cultivation of Microgreens" is to present new findings about the methods of growing microgreens of different plant species, introducing new plant species into this type of food production, appropriate innovative growing conditions, the quality and nutrition content of the produced plants, control of environmental conditions during their cultivation, new media for cultivation, antioxidant activity and capacity, and all other research related to the production of microgreens.
Dr. Girek Zdenka
Dr. Francesco Di Gioia
Dr. Suzana Pavlović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- controlled environment
- functional food
- hydroponics
- lighting control/LED lights
- phytonutrients
- plant growth media
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