Section Editors
- Editorial Board
- Protected Culture Section
- Developmental Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Section
- Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology Section
- Biotic and Abiotic Stress Section
- Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2) Section
- Plant Nutrition Section
- Propagation and Seeds Section
- Vegetable Production Systems Section
- Fruit Production Systems Section
- Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf Section
- Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops Section
- Outreach, Extension, and Education Section
- Viticulture Section
- Processed Horticultural Products Section
- Plant Pathology and Disease Management (PPDM) Section
- Insect Pest Management Section
- Horticultural Economics, Policy, Business Management and Marketing Section
Section Board for 'Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology' (21)
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Interests: postharvest physiology; pathology; sensory and biochemistry issues; fruit; vegetables
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Agronomy: Postharvest Storage Techniques and Quality Evaluation of Fruits and Vegetables
Special Issue in Agronomy: Alternatives to Chemicals in Fruits and Vegetables Production and Storage
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Alternatives to Chemicals in Fruits and Vegetables Production and Storage
Interests: fruit ripening; fruit quality maintenance; responses to fungal pathogens; postharvest biology and technology
Interests: development of postharvest technologies to improve storage life of agricultural commodities, which keep the quality and food safety and minimize the environmental impact; intrusive and non-destructive methods for fresh food quality evaluation, storage capacity prevision and physiological disorders, and strategies to improve the fresh food supply chain; the physiology and biotechnology of the metabolic processes that occur during ripening and senescence of agricultural commodities; physiology of fruit ripening and senescence; postharvest pathology and physiological disorders; minimally processed foods; transportation of horticultural products
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: fruit quality biology; postharvest biology of horticultural crop; postharvest storage and logistics of horticultural products
Interests: post harvest disease; banana; mango; anthracnosis; pineapple; mechanism of defense (biochemical and physiological); fruit pathology
Interests: postharvest biology of horticultural crops; fruit ripening; transcriptional regulation; post-translational modification; epigenetics/epigenomics
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Interests: biostimulants; plant physiology; biofortification; horticulture; hydroponics; postharvest; secondary metabolism
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Special Issue in Horticulturae: Production and Quality of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Biodiversity, Production, Processing and Quality along the Chain of Herbal and Edible Flowers
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Horticulture in the Time of COVID-19
Interests: horticulture; metabolomics; crop physiology of vegetables and floriculture
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Special Issue in Plants: Nutrient Use Efficiency under Optimal and Stressful Conditions of Horticulture Plants
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Nutrient Use Efficiency under Optimal and Stressful Conditions of Horticulture Plants
Special Issue in Bioengineering: Metabolic Engineering and Remodelling in Plants for Enhanced Food Productivity and Nutritional Quality
Interests: agricultural economics; development economics; value chains and trade; food safety; environmental standards; certification; food security
2. AGROTÈCNIO-CERCA Center, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: cuticle; cell wall; flavor; fruit ripening; fruit quality; postharvest biology and technology of fruit; fruit cuticles as modulators of post harvest quality
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Plants: Effects of Water Stress on the Biosynthesis and Accumulation of Secondary Metabolites in Fruit
Special Issue in Horticulturae: More than a Wrap: The Role of Fruit Skin in Defining Fruit Quality
Special Issue in Agriculture: Agriculture: 10th Anniversary
Interests: Postharvest biology of horticultural fruit
Interests: mechanism of plant hormone signal transduction, development and senescence regulation of fruit and vegetable, food biotechnology
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Interests: postharvest; fruit quality; by-products; biocompounds
Interests: agronomic management in horticulture and floriculture; breeding of horticultural crops; crop physiology; vegetables quality; secondary metabolites
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Special Issue in Horticulturae: Neglected and Underutilized Plant Species in Horticultural and Ornamental Systems: Perspectives for Biodiversity, Nutraceuticals and Agricultural Sustainability
Interests: sensing; imaging; spectroscopy; machine vision; nondestructive evaluation; food safety and quality; plant health monitoring; artificial intelligence
Interests: waste utilisation; plant bioactives; cereal science; postharvest; novel technologies
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Special Issue in Foods: Biochemical Changes in Postharvest Fruits and Vegetables with Impact in Quality
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Sustainable Horticulture in Marginal Environments
Interests: subtropical and tropical postharvest horticulture; smallholder production; postharvest supply chain; tropical crops; fruits; Pacific Islands
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Interests: postharvest; elicitors; non-contaminant technologies; bioactive compounds; antioxidants
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Interests: genetic and biochemical mechanisms determining fresh produce quality and shelf life; functional studies of genes controlling fruit development and ripening; response to stresses; secondary metabolism
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Interests: fruit development and quality; fruit postharvest biology and technology; fruit tree and environmental responses; plant hormones and their interactions; molecular biology
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Interests: pathology; physiology; shelf-life; postharvest disease; fruit; vegetables; nutritional values
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals