Ornamental Breeding and Genetics
This website
has been developed to inform readers about the importance of
Ornamental Breeding and Genetics of various crops (cut
flowers, potplants, garden plants,
bulbous plants see also
LiliumBreeding, the main breeding companies of these crops and an overview
of the used breeding techniques.
EUCARPIA section
ornamentals organize every 3 years a symposium on this topic.
In 2009
more than 280
ornamental researchers, breeders and others interested in
breeding and genetics of ornamental plants have participated
in the
23rd meeting held in Leiden, The Netherlands. The 24th meeting was held
in 2012 in Warsaw, Poland. The 25th meeting was held in 2015
in Melle, Belgium,
The 26th meeting was held in 2019 in
Erfurt (https://www.eucarpia-ornamentals2018.org/).
The 27th meeting was in held in 2023 June 2-5 in Genoa,
Italy.
The Third
International Lilium Symposium was held in Zhangzhou, China April
1-3, 2014 (see Acta
Hortic 1027).