Greetings We are organizing a Special Issue entitled “The Role of Soil Microorganisms in Enhancing the Efficiency of Medicinal and Aromatic plants", to be published in the journal Horticulturae. With your distinguished expertise in this area, we invite you to consider submitting one manuscript to this special issue. The submission deadline is 1 December 2025.

About the Special Issue:

This Special Issue aims to focus on the functions and roles of different types of microbes and their interactions with medicinal and aromatic plants through a number of direct or indirect mechanisms, and how the plant–microbe interaction acts on plant growth, what mechanisms are used to survive under stressful environmental conditions, and how the interaction and abiotic parameters can interfere with the success of microbial inoculation in plants, acting as a basis for studies on the plant–microorganism interaction. This Special Issue also aims to consider how microbiota affects the internal and external microenvironment of medicinal plants and herbs, and how microbiota enhances the efficacy and quality of medicinal plants such as Chinese herbal medicines. Therefore, the relationship and interaction between the microenvironment and herbal medicines can be explained.

Special Issue Website:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/horticulturae/special_issues/8V57O0818N

Here is a brief introduction to Horticulturae (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/horticulturae):

1. A journal in MDPI with full open access publishing style;

2. Horticulturae is indexed by SCIE and Scopus (Q1 in the ‘Horticulture’ Category);

3. Rapid Publication: A first decision is provided to authors approximately 14.6 days after submission.

4. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 2200 currently applies to all accepted papers.

If you are interested in contributing a paper, please kindly send us back a few words about your submission plans within the next two weeks.

Thank you for your consideration.

Guest Editors,

Prof. Dr. Wenli Sun

Dr. Mohamad Hesam Shahrajabian