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We are delighted to present a list of title story articles selected for display at the top of the Horticulturae (ISSN: 2311-7524) homepage for the second half of 2024. These articles cover a wide range of topics, including pre-harvest treatments, quality traits, vegetable landraces, floral volatiles, spectroscopy, artificial lighting, and plant growth regulators, to name a few. We hope you will find something of interest among these exceptional publications.

1. “Role of Pre-Harvest Sorbitol–Calcium Treatments in Controlling Berry Drop in Bagged Table Grapes of the “Doña María” Variety”
by Alberto Guirao, Juan Miguel Valverde, Huertas María Díaz-Mula, Daniel Valero, María Serrano and Domingo Martínez-Romero
Horticulturae 2024, 10(7), 698; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10070698
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/7/698

2. “Comparison of Volatile Organic Compounds, Quality, and Nutritional Parameters from Local Italian and International Apple Cultivars”
by Aurora Cirillo, Natasha D. Spadafora, Lily James-Knight, Richard A. Ludlow, Carsten T. Müller, Lucia De Luca, Raffaele Romano, Hilary J. Rogers and Claudio Di Vaio
Horticulturae 2024, 10(8), 863; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080863
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/8/863

3. “Fruit Position on Tree Canopy Affects Fruit Quality Traits in ‘Sanguinelli’ Blood Oranges”
by Vicente Serna-Escolano, María José Giménez, María Serrano, Daniel Valero, María Emma García-Pastor, Alicia Dobón-Suarez, María Gutiérrez-Pozo, Marina Giménez-Berenguer and Pedro J. Zapata
Horticulturae 2024, 10(9), 949; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10090949
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/9/949

4. “The Conservation Varieties Regime: Its Past, Present and Future in the Protection and Commercialisation of Vegetable Landraces in Europe”
by Adriano Didonna, Riccardo Bocci, Massimiliano Renna and Pietro Santamaria
Horticulturae 2024, 10(8), 877; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080877
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/8/877

5. “Exploration of Thiamin thiazole synthase (THI4) Expression and Transcriptomes Involved in the Floral Volatiles of Caladium bicolor”
by Joo Young Kim, Cindy L. Sigler, Keun H. Cho, Madelyn D. Gennaro, Mara S. Ellsworth and Thomas A. Colquhoun
Horticulturae 2024, 10(8), 810; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080810
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/8/810

6. “Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: A Tool for Determining the Harvesting Time of Olive Fruit”
by Marin Krapac, Jerko Gunjača, Barbara Sladonja, Đani Benčić and Karolina Brkić Bubola
Horticulturae 2024, 10(11), 1131; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10111131
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/11/1131

7. “Blue and Red Light Downconversion Film Application Enhances Plant Photosynthetic Performance and Fruit Productivity of Rubus fruticosus L. var. Loch Ness”
by Hafsa El Horri, Maria Vitiello, Alessandra Braca, Marinella De Leo, Lucia Guidi, Marco Landi, Giulia Lauria, Ermes Lo Piccolo, Rossano Massai, Damiano Remorini et al.
Horticulturae 2024, 10(10), 1046; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10101046
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/10/1046

8. “Nutrient Composition of Arugula Leafy Greens Following Application of Ascorbic Acid Foliar Sprays”
by Shivani Kathi, He Liu, Haydee Laza, Leslie Thompson, Sukhbir Singh, Wei Li and Catherine R. Simpson
Horticulturae 2024, 10(11), 1126; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10111126
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/11/1126

9. “Exogenous Application of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic Acid as a New Strategy to Trigger the Color Development of Table Grapes Grown in Subtropics”
by Aline Cristina de Aguiar, Fábio Yamashita, Renata Koyama, Bruna Evelise Bosso Caetano, Carlos Akira Komoli Utiamada and Sergio Ruffo Roberto
Horticulturae 2024, 10(12), 1276; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10121276
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/12/1276

10. “Gibberellin Treatment Accelerates Starch Decomposition and Seed Germination in Sticky Nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam.)”
by Haobo Xu, Danni Mo, Xingyu Zhang, Fangman Li, Jinbao Tao, Pingfei Ge, Yang Yang, Ziyuan Wang and Yuyang Zhang
Horticulturae 2024, 10(12), 1342; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10121342
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/12/1342