Sustainable Irrigation Strategies and Their Effect on Composition and Quality of Fruits and Vegetables
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 314
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evaluation of volatile compounds and the sensory quality of fruits, vegetables, and derived products; evolution of the functional and sensory properties of different fruits and vegetables as affected by different agricultural practices and processing; dehydration of fruits, vegetables, aromatic herbs
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Interests: irrigation management; deficit irrigation; climate change; plant ecophysiology; water stress; water relations; water footprint; water-use efficiency; water productivity; water saving; droughts and water scarcity; plant nutrition; evapotranspiration and plant modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture is the largest user of freshwater. Its continued growth is increasing the severity of water scarcity and the frequency of imbalance situations between water supply and demand occurring in agrosystems around the world, which are facing growing pressure to reduce water use. These facts highlight the need to maximize crop water productivity. Moreover, among the tools that growers can use to achieve this goal, there should be more precise irrigation strategies and scheduling procedures that will protect water resources and their integrity for their future use.
Different irrigation and water stress strategies as cultivation techniques involve unquestionable changes in the composition and quality of fruits and vegetables. Studies that relate the incidence of these irrigation strategies with the physical, chemical, functional, and sensorial properties of fruits and vegetables are necessary to achieve improvements in both the sustainability of water resources and the final quality of fruits and vegetables.
As a result of this, the present Special Issue is aimed at gathering outstanding cross-disciplinary approaches (reviews and original research) that apply the combination of deficit irrigation and water stress strategies as a tool to combine the saving of freshwater and the quality of fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Ángel Calín-Sánchez
Dr. Alejandro Galindo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deficit irrigation
- water stress
- composition
- quality
- fruits
- vegetables
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