The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
27th January 2025
14th March 2025
30th April 2025
Cutting-Edge Horticultural Research, Precision Horticulture, Innovative Systems, Protected Horticulture, Crop Stress Physiology, High Quality Products, Sustainability
The IECHo 2025 is now OPEN for submissions!
Abstract submission deadline is 27 January 2025
Submit your abstracts HERE
Register for the conference HERE
Stay Tuned!
We will update important announcements here.
ALL participants with accepted abstracts now have the opportunity to upload and display their posters at the Poster Gallery on the conference website!
Replacing the live poster session, the poster gallery would be ‘LIVE’ throughout and available for viewing during and permanently after the event!
Click here for more information and instructions on the poster submission.
Welcome from the Chairs
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae held shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic was a great success. The event proved the invaluable role of virtual conferences in promoting global collaboration and knowledge exchange among researchers and other stakeholders all over the world.
Therefore, we are excited to invite you to join the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae (IECHo2025), where we will explore the forefront of research in horticultural science. This conference will serve as a platform for vibrant collaboration and innovation in a world facing the challenges of climate change, a growing population, and the increasing demand for high-quality and sustainable horticultural products, ranging from fruits and vegetables to ornamental plants.
The conference will feature multiple sessions that cover the key research areas in horticultural science such as the following:
S1. Genomics and Molecular Biology.
S2. Abiotic and Biotic Stress.
S3. Precision Horticulture.
S4. Greenhouse and Indoor Farms.
S5. Postharvest Physiology and Technology.
S6. Politics and Economy.
We look forward to seeing you present and share your latest research work and ideas at this conference. The virtual format offers numerous advantages, including the elimination of registration fees and travel expenses, saving time, and enhancing personal comfort, which on-site events may not provide. Moreover, your presentation will reach hundreds of researchers worldwide.
This conference is hosted by MDPI, and all accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in Proceedings (mdpi.com/journal/proceedings).
The Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts to be published in one Special Issue of Horticulturae (20% discount on APC) after the conference.
Prof. Dr. Luigi De Bellis & Prof. Dr. Alberto Pardossi
Chairs of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae
Event Chairs
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Lecce, Italy
Prof. Dr. Luigi De Bellis is a full professor of plant physiology at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. in Horticulture from the University of Pisa in 1987. His research interests include agricultural physiology/genetic characterisation of cereals/olive trees, plant-pathogen interactions, and the nutraceutical characteristics of secondary metabolites found in plants. From 2012 to 2020, he was the director of his university department, and from 2017 to 2020, he served on the board of the CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in Lecce, Italy). He was the project or team leader for numerous international and national research projects. He is also a reviewer for several journals and the Editor in Chief of Horticulturae.
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali (DiSAAA-a) University of Pisa, Italy
Prof. Alberto Pardossi received a PhD in Horticulture at the University of Pisa (1989), where I was a research assistant from 1988 to 1998, when he moved to the role of Associate Professor of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops at the University of Milan. In 2001, Prof. A. Pardossi returned to the University of Pisa, where he has held the position of Full Professor since 2012 and served as the Director of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment from 2016 to 2020. His main research interests regard greenhouse horticulture, hydroponic technology, irrigation management, and plant nutrition. Prof. A. Pardossi was project or team leader in several international or national research projects, and a reviewer of many international journals. He is currently Section Editor in Chief of Horticulturae.
Invited Speakers
Department of Agricultural, Food and Agro-Environmental Sciences, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Treatments to preserve the quality of horticultural products
Alice Trivellini PhD, is an associate professor of horticulture since September 2023. She graduated in Plant Biotechnology and Microorganism at the University of Pisa with 110/110 cum laude in 2006. She earned the PhD in Crop Science at the University of Pisa in 2010 and postdoc specialization in physiological, molecular, and technological aspects related to the maintenance of quality during the preservation of vegetables and ornamental plants using destructive and non-destructing methods. Her research activity is mainly focused on post-harvest and quality of vegetables and ornamental products, crop abiotic stresses, protected cultivation, hydroponics, and crop physiology with special attention to horticultural species. The research activity is documented with more than 120 publications, 69 indexed in Scopus; H-index 29; citations > 2900.
Treatments, product quality, senescence
Registration
The registration for IECHo 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
When registering with several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 30 April 2025.
Instructions for Authors
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadlines
Deadline for abstract submission: 27 January 2025
Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 14 March 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The abstract structure should include Background/Introduction; Goals; Methodology; Results; Conclusions sections of about 300–400 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Oral Presentation and Slides Submission
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Gallery
Your poster submission should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1,080 width x 1,536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥20.
- Maximum size: 250 M
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.
Step 1 https://sciforum.net/dashboard/author/submissions
Step 2 Choose the correct conference and submission id, click upload button
Step 3 Upload poster (not oral presentation slides) and click submit button
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area on sciforum.net, under "My Certificates" after the conference
Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 5 awards including Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 5
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be five winners selected for this award. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Publication Opportunity
1. Horticulturae Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the Special Issue published in Horticulturae (ISSN: 2311-7524 , IF 3.1), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Special Issue information will be updated after the conference. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Horticulturae in the Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976), if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (3-5 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECHo 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Proceedings paper submission deadline: TBD
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
- Title.
- Full author names.
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
- Abstract.
- Keywords.
- Introduction.
- Methods.
- Results and Discussion.
- Conclusions.
- Acknowledgements.
- References
You can download the template for the proceeding paper here.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Canna Ren
Ms. Judith Yang
Ms. Sophia Gan
Ms. Wong Jolin
Email: iecho2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
