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Horticulture is the art and science of growing ornamental plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and more controlled scale than agronomy.
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...
Pages in category "Horticulture" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. ... Bokashi (horticulture) Bolting (horticulture) Branch collar;
Works must cover the subject of one of the main branches of horticultural crops: fruit production, vegetable production, herbs and medicinal plants, ornamental plants, and plants used in landscape architecture, as well as papers that combine aspects of plant cultivation, plant protection, breeding, seed and nursery, and storage of horticultural ...
An inflorescence with branches arising at different points but reaching about the same height, giving the flower cluster a flat-topped appearance. costa A costa is an extension of the petiole into the leaf blade, forming a midrib-like structure.
Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The particles were found in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.
The horticulture industry embraces the production, processing and shipping of and the market for fruits and vegetables. As such it is a sector of agribusiness and industrialized agriculture . Industrialized horticulture sometimes also includes the floriculture industry and production and trade of ornamental plants .
Branches of botany. Agronomy; Bryology (mosses and liverworts) Dendrology (woody plants) Economic botany; Ethnobotany; Horticulture; Lichenology (lichens) Mycology (fungi) Paleobotany; Palynology (spores and pollen) Phycology (algae) Phytosociology; Plant anatomy; Plant ecology; Plant evolution; Plant genetics; Plant morphology; Plant pathology ...