Control of Postharvest Fungal Diseases, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungi in Agriculture and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 2188
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant disease; induced resistance; mycotoxin; disease control; pathogenic fungi; isolation and identification
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Dear Colleagues,
Disease of horticultural products, including fruit, vegetables, flowers, spice plants, and medicinal plants, is an important factor that leads to severe postharvest product decay, huge economic losses, and mycotoxin contamination. Horticultural products are susceptible to pathogenic fungi during the growth and storage period. Various pathogens that adapt to the local environment can infect different horticultural products, and they vary greatly. Therefore, the isolation and identification of pathogens causing horticultural product disease are highly necessary to control plant disease and develop specific fungicides for these different pathogens. In addition, chemical fungicides are the main strategy to manage horticultural product disease; however, a series of problems such as environmental pollution, fungicide residue, and pathogens developing resistance to fungicides are becoming more and more prominent. Induced resistance by various biotic inducers and abiotic stresses is considered a sustainable strategy to control the postharvest decay of horticultural products, which has gained increasing attention in recent years.
Therefore, we encourage manuscripts on the following topics: 1. Isolation and identification of pathogenic fungi in pre-harvest or post-harvest horticultural products; 2. New diagnosis and detection technology of pathogenic fungi in horticultural products; 3. Prevention and control methods of pathogenic fungi in horticultural products; 4. Detection and control technologies related to pathogenic mycotoxins of horticultural products; 5. Pathogenic mechanism of pathogenic fungi on horticultural products.
Prof. Dr. Huali Xue
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant disease
- induced resistance
- mycotoxin
- disease control
- pathogenic fungi
- isolation and identification
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