Enhancing Fruit Crops Resilience and Productivity to Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

An annual cycle of fruit crops mainly includes stages such as vegetative growth, environmental or physiological dormancy, and reproductive growth, each depending on specific environmental factors. Therefore, growth, development, and survival of fruit crops are highly sensitive to climates and, thus, optimal climatic conditions can maximize fruit production.

Climate change and global warming have contributed to the rise of global temperature by around 1.0°C between 1880 and 2019, resulting in increasing the incidence and intensity of extreme weather events in most fruit crop production regions, thereby reducing fruit productivity. Negative impacts of environmental stresses related to water (deficit, drought, and waterlogging), solar radiation (sun burn and photoinhibition), salinity, temperature (heat, chilling, and freezing), wind, and air quality (rising CO₂) that affect fruit crop productivity, especially during the initiation and development of flowers, fruit growth, dormancy and acclimations, have been remarkably accelerated during the past two decades.

Systematic research on the resilience of fruit crops and its application by adjusting varieties, shifting production regions, improving orchard management, and industrial developmental strategies to meet the challenges of climate change are undoubtedly important. In recent years, research achievements on grasping the interactions between fruit crops resilience and environmental variables have made great progress. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish the latest studies or reviews of all aspects of fruit crops resilience as a reference for future research on sustainable development of the fruit crops industry.

Prof. Dr. Jer-Chia Chang
Guest Editor

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