Improving Quality of Fruit: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Fruit Production Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agriculture; plant nutrition; fertilizers; proteomics; horticulture; fruit quality; fruit science; postharvest physiology; postharvest; postharvest biology; pomology; sweet cherry; metabolomics; transcriptomics
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Interests: horticulture; metabolomics; plant physiology; proteomics; abiotic stress; high-throughput sequencing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the tremendous success of the first edition of the Special Issue “Improving Quality of Fruit” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/horticulturae/special_issues/fruitquality_improving), a second edition is being launched.
Fruits are necessary in a balanced diet and are consumed for their vitamins, fibers, and other beneficial compounds. The most appealing characteristics of fruits are their sensory traits such as flavor, texture, aroma, color and, additionally, several bioactive phytochemicals. Therefore, a better understanding of fruit ripening mechanisms is required to improve their quality. Fruits are classified into climacteric and non-climacteric. Climacteric fruits include apples, pears, kiwifruits, peaches, etc. In this type of fruit, a respiration burst during ripening, accelerated by ethylene production, has been observed. Non-climacteric fruits include sweet cherries, strawberries, citrus species, etc. In this class of fruit, respiration remains stable or declines during ripening. For both types of ripening, fruit quality can be affected in various ways during both on-tree development and the postharvest period. The aim of this Special Issue, 'Improving Quality of Fruit', is to explore a variety of agricultural practices, preharvest foliar applications, harvest processes, and postharvest handling and storage factors related to fruit quality.
Dr. Michail Michailidis
Dr. Georgia Tanou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit quality
- fruit metabolites
- fruit transcriptome
- fruit proteome
- fruit sensory features
- fruit peel
- foliar applications
- postharvest application
- fruit immersion
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