On behalf of the local organizing and scientific committees, we cordially invite you to attend the Third International Horticulture Research Conference, which will be held in October 16 - 19, 2016, on the campus of the Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China. The conference will be hosted by Key Laboratory of Biology and Germplasm Enhancement of Horticultural Crops in Eastern China, and organized through Horticulture Research, the journal jointly published by Nanjing Agricultural University and the Nature Publishing Group.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together international researchers conducting basic research on horticultural crops, to showcase the latest research findings, to network with colleagues from around the world, and to meet the journal’s Editor-in-Chief and some of the Associate Editors. Four themes will be highlighted in the conference: big data (omics), horticultural crop evolution, epigenetics, and genome editing. The conference will feature keynote speakers within as well as outside of the field of horticulture including distinguished general plant biology researchers, invited and general presentations, and posters. Postdoc/Graduate poster awards also will be given.