Dr. Péter Honfi - MATE Research
Overview
Péter Honfi is an associate professor at the Department of Floriculture and Dendrology, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art. He serves as head of the department, vice director for education of the institute, head of the Buda Arboretum, and chair of the Subcommittee on Ornamental Plants of the Committee on Horticulture and Food Sciences, Section of Agricultural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served as deputy dean of the Faculty of Horticultural Science (2015-2020) and director of the Buda Campus (2015-2016).
His research focuses on the cultivation and application of ornamental plants, with a special focus on the cultivation of taxa that can be used in a changing climate, and biostimulators that can be applied in greenhouse cultivation.
Dr. Péter Honfi authored and co-authored 13 research articles in high-impact scientific journals (7 and 1 of those were published in Q1 and Q2 journals, respectively).
He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Glasilo Future and the editorial board of Kertgazdaság (Horticulture) and a former responsible editor of the Dísznövény Szemle (Ornamental Plant Review).
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Publications
Honfi, P., Eisa, E.A., Tilly-Mándy, A., Kohut, I., Ecseri, K., Mosonyi, I.D. Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils. 2023 PLANTS-BASEL 12(9) Paper: 1807 MDPI IF 4.0, Q1 https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091807
Eisa, E.A., Honfi, P., Tilly-Mándy, A., Gururani, M.A. Exogenous Application of Melatonin Alleviates Drought Stress in Ranunculus asiaticus by Improving Its Morphophysiological and Biochemical Attributes. 2023 HORTICULTURAE 9(2), 262 IF 3.1, Q1 https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9020262
Eman, A.E., Tilly-Mándy, A., Honfi, P., Yousef Shala, A., Anand Gururani, M. Chrysanthemum: A Comprehensive Review on Recent Developments on In Vitro Regeneration. 2022 BIOLOGY-BASEL 11, Paper: 1174 IF 4,2, Q1 https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11121774
Hrotkó, K., Gyeviki, M., Sütöriné Diószegi, M., Magyar, L., Mészáros, R., Honfi, P., Kardos, L. Foliar dust and heavy metal deposit on leaves of urban trees in Budapest (Hungary) 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 43(5) pp. 1927-1940. IF 4,609, Q1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-020-00769-y
Gyeviki, M; Hrotkó, K; Honfi, P (2012) Comparison of leaf population of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) trees on different rootstocks.
SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE 141, pp. 30-36. IF 1,396, Q1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2012.03.015
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