Will the traditional horticultural breeding and genetics research be fairly valued in academia?
Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng1,2 , Dennis J Werner,3
1The Laboratory of Fruit Crop Systems Biology, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210095, The People's Republic of China 2Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Editor-in-Chief, Horticulture Research 3Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Box 7609, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609, USA
I wrote the inaugural Editorial when Horticulture Research was launched in January 2014. This second Editorial was trigged by the manuscript that was submitted to Horticulture Research (HORTRES.2015.49, www.nature.com/articles/hortres201549), a summary of 17 years of traditional genetics on a woody ornamental tree called redbud.
