Horticulture is the science of growing plants and crops with an emphasis on sustainability, conservation and management. The field also delves into plant conservation, soil management, plant propagation and cultivation. Generating disease resistance in plants, improving nutrition and inducing increased tolerance to environmental stress factors that affect plant growth are also studied under this domain. Some of the popular horticultural practices are arboriculture, landscape restoration, garden designing among many others. ...
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Horticulture is the science of growing plants and crops with an emphasis on sustainability, conservation and management. The field also delves into plant conservation, soil management, plant propagation and cultivation. Generating disease resistance in plants, improving nutrition and inducing increased tolerance to environmental stress factors that affect plant growth are also studied under this domain. Some of the popular horticultural practices are arboriculture, landscape restoration, garden designing among many others. This book aims to broaden the knowledge in the diverse aspects of this field. The various sub-fields of horticulture along with technological progress that have future implications are glanced at in this book. For all those who are interested in this domain, this book will prove to be an essential guide.
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