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Research Advances in the Physiology of Vegetable Crops

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Vegetable Production Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2022) | Viewed by 5866

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Deping Guo

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Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: physiology of vegetable crops; storage organ formation of vegetables
Prof. Dr. Xihong Yu

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College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Interests: physiology of vegetable crops; wild vegetable resources and conservation; green-house environment and control

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Vegetables can be consumed either fresh or after preparation, and they are a source of vitamins and other nutrients  for humans. The yield, quality, and taste and appearance of vegetables are influenced by a variety of factors, and these are important considerations in physiological studies.

There is an increasing interest in elucidating the mechanisms of plant growth that greatly determine the yield and quality, and this know-how will enable the manipulation of certain physiological pathways for productivity, quality, and sustainability of vegetable production.

This Special Issue publishes original reviews, research papers, and short communications in the area of ecophysiology, the molecular physiology of vegetable crops, including regulation of growth and developmental processes, harvested organ formation, pathophysiology, stress physiology, biochemistry of compounds, and other topics relevant to physiological and biochemistry processes.

Prof. Dr. Deping Guo
Prof. Dr. Xihong Yu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Horticulturae is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • growth
  • development
  • storage organ
  • environmental factors
  • plant hormone
  • physiology
  • biochemistry
  • transcriptomics
  • microbe–plant interaction

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Greenhouse Photoluminescent PMMA Panels Improve the Agronomical and Physiological Performances of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
by Ida Di Mola, Stefano Conti, Milos Bartak, Eugenio Cozzolino, Lucia Ottaiano, Davide Giordano, Giuseppe Melchionna, Pasquale Mormile, Massimo Rippa, Luca Beltrame, Christophe El-Nakhel, Giandomenico Corrado, Youssef Rouphael and Mauro Mori
Horticulturae 2022, 8(10), 913; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8100913 - 06 Oct 2022
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Supplementary lighting of specific wavelengths can be used for inducing morphological and physiological responses in different crops, ultimately improving yield and quality. Based on this approach, new greenhouse covering materials are being developed in order to improve the use of sunlight in horticulture. [...] Read more.
Supplementary lighting of specific wavelengths can be used for inducing morphological and physiological responses in different crops, ultimately improving yield and quality. Based on this approach, new greenhouse covering materials are being developed in order to improve the use of sunlight in horticulture. These new-generation greenhouse coverings may incorporate light spectrum modulation agents or fluorescent additives which convert solar UV radiation into visible light. In this work, we tested the agronomical and physiological response of lettuce grown under a greenhouse covered with poly-methyl-methacrylate (PPMA) panels doped with a blend of the rare-earth inorganic material with a photo-luminescent effect. The doped greenhouse elicited a 36% increase in lettuce yield compared to the undoped greenhouse. Chlorophyll and carotenoid content, as well as antioxidant activity and ascorbic acid content, were not affected by greenhouse cover, but the doped panels induced a 22% reduction in total phenolics and a 14% increase in nitrate content in leaves. The greenhouse covering materials also affected the photochemistry of photosynthesis, as the daily fluctuations in both the effective quantum yield (ΦPSII) and the electron transport rate (ETR) were attenuated under the doped greenhouse. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) was closely related to the light environment in all experimental conditions, with the highest values at 14:00 h. Our results showed that the red-supplemented light spectrum under the doped greenhouse cover contributed to increased plant growth and yield, with a corresponding effect on the physiology of photosynthesis. Full article
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Determination of Specific Parameters for Early Detection of Botrytis cinerea in Lettuce
by Viktorija Vaštakaitė-Kairienė, Neringa Rasiukevičiūtė, Lina Dėnė, Simona Chrapačienė and Alma Valiuškaitė
Horticulturae 2022, 8(1), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8010023 - 24 Dec 2021
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In horticulture, the demand for efficient farming processes and food industries increases rapidly. Plant diseases cause severe crop production and economic losses. Therefore, early detection and identification of the diseases in plants are critical. This study aimed to determine the specific parameters for [...] Read more.
In horticulture, the demand for efficient farming processes and food industries increases rapidly. Plant diseases cause severe crop production and economic losses. Therefore, early detection and identification of the diseases in plants are critical. This study aimed to determine the specific parameters for early detection of Botrytis cinerea in lettuce. The lettuce “Little Gem” was inoculated with B. cinerea isolate spore suspension and disc to evaluate the plant response to inner and outer infection, respectively. The non-destructive measurements of leaf spectral reflectance indices and biochemical compounds (phenols, proteins, DPPH, FRAP, chlorophyll, and carotenoids) were used to evaluate the plant physiological response to inoculation with B. cinerea after 12, 18, 36, 60, and 84 h. Our data showed that lettuce responded differently to inner and outer inoculation with B. cinerea. Therefore, the findings of this study allow for the inoculation method to be chosen to determine the early plant response to infection with B. cinerea according to specific leaf spectral reflectance indexes and phytochemicals in further research. Full article
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