Talk:Horticulture

Expanding Horticulture
Hello, I am a student at the University of British Columbia. A partner and I will be editing this page under this account and are looking to add a new section describing the techniques of horticulture. So far we are planning on adding information about sexual and asexual propagation, plant selection, plant bed preparation, adding plants, pruning, watering, mulching, and weed management. Hopefully, this will go up within the next couple of days. Taukkai (talk) 07:49, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Short description?
The current short description says "small-scale" but is that right as some farmers have a lot of very big greenhouses? Chidgk1 (talk) 10:55, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Practical Research Methodology 2024
— Assignment last updated by Rochelleguzman29 (talk) 17:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Two history sections
There are two history sections which basically cover the same info with a couple parts that are different. They should probably be combined into one or made different enough to justify it being in two parts. 2603:8001:DC3C:E6DF:6839:6D3A:4E55:590A (talk) 03:38, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Under CHALLENGES, out-of-place Emerging Technologies
The following quoted material does not match the context -- every other paragraph in this section titled "CHALLENGES" describes phenomenon that negatively effect the plants. However, this paragraph related to Emerging Technologies comes off as CRISPR fanaticism and seems to digress from the overall topic of the rest of the CHALLENGES section.

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Emerging technology Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR/Cas9) has recently gained recognition as a highly efficient, simplified, precise, and low cost method of altering the genomes of species.[27] Since 2013, CRISPR has been used to enhance a variety of species of grains, fruits, and vegetables. Crops are modified to increase their resistance to biotic and abiotic stressors such as parasites, disease, and drought as well as increase yield, nutrition, and flavour.[28] Additionally, CRISPR has been used to edit undesirable traits, for example, reducing the browning and production of toxic and bitter substances of potatoes. CRISPR has also been employed to solve issues of low pollination rates and low fruit yield common in greenhouses. As compared to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), CRISPR does not add any alien DNA to the plant's genes. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Remfan1994 (talk) 04:04, 13 July 2024 (UTC)