Department of Floriculture and Dendrology

Research activity

Dendrology, growing and plant application of woody plants

• Application of environmental physiological methods (measurement of leaf area index, measurement of CO2 sequestration, evaporation, deposition of air pollution) to evaluate the environmental utility of woody plants in urban environments.
• Naturalization of foreign varieties and variety-assessment
• Working out production technologies
• Propagation:
  • Budding trials in nurseries, partly covered areas (maple, oak, pear, linden species and varieties)
  • Hand-grafting in winter and early sprig time on rooted stocks and unrooted cuttings (juniper and Thuja varieties)
  • Developing mother plant plantation for production of green, half-woody and woody cuttings of difficult-to-root ornamental shrub taxa. Working out preconditioning technologies.
    Histological studies connecting to the propagation methods.

Perennial plants

• Questions of propagating and growing of Hungarian native species
• Propagation research of difficult-to-propagate ornamental perennials
• Intensive medium and fertilizing research
• Propagation and stress-tolerance examination of new perennial species suitable for green roofs
• Viral depreciation of bulbous plants

   
 

Production of annuals and other species under protected area and their application

• Possibilities of growing new, energy-saving taxa
• Adaptation of new balcony and annual bedding species and varieties in Hungary
• Up-to-date fertilizing systems in potplant and cutflower cultures
• Developing of cost-reducing technological varieties

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Micropropagation of ornamental plants

• Micropropagation of native protected species (orchids, bulbs etc. Iris pseudacorus, Leucojum vernum, Galanthus nivalis)
• Micropropagation technique specialities of perennial ornamentals and pot plants
• Stress-tolerance examinations in in vitro propagated ornamental plants
• Acclimatization questions of in vitro propagated ornamentals
• Micropropagation technique specialities of Sorbus-species
• Micropropagation of Hungarian bred ornamental species
• Histological and physiological studies on in vitro propagated ornamentals