Preharvest and Postharvest Technology on Quality and Shelf Life of Agri-Foods
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 1233
Special Issue Editors
Interests: postharvest technology; fruit preservation; food science; chilling; ripening
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Foods is devoted exclusively to the publication of original research papers, review articles, comments, and frontier articles on the use of preharvest and postharvest technologies on the food quality and shelf life of agri-foods, including fruit, vegetables, edible fungi, herbs, and tea.
The research primarily focuses on basic and fundamental aspects with broad international and disciplinary interests, including, but not limited to, genetics breeding, systems biology, bioinformatics, preharvest and postharvest treatment, plant physiology, plant pathology, (bio)chemistry, epigenetics, cell and molecular biology, postharvest preservation, ripening and senescence of fruit and vegetables, molecular mechanism research under abiotic stress, postharvest processing technology of horticultural products, agri-foods safety, quality assessment, and technologies for non-destructive testing, etc.
This Special Issue will focus on the postharvest physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, as well as other “-omics” of fresh horticultural products. In addition, there is also some interest in new uses for agricultural products, the development of new quality indicators or methods for assessing the quality of fresh produce, and new sustainable production systems or technologies in the agri-foods sector.
Dr. Jiali Yang
Prof. Dr. Juan Pablo Fernández Trujillo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- preharvest and postharvest technology
- horticultural products
- fruit preservation
- plant physiology
- molecular biology
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