Horticultural Plant Cultivation and Fruit Quality Enhancement

Dear Colleagues,

Horticultural plant cultivation can affect the quality of fruit in many ways, including affecting fruit’s size, shape, color, texture, palate, flavor, nutrients, etc. The increasing availability of new techniques and methods of horticultural plant cultivation has opened new avenues of research, and our tools for manipulating the quality profiles and components of fruit are expanding. In addition, as our molecular understanding of the formation and regulatory mechanism of fruit quality (regarding the organoleptic and functional aspects) increases, the optimization of primary and secondary metabolites (metabolic pathways) and methods and standards for quality control and determination (nondestructive, fast, digital and multiomic) start to move from theory to application. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight methods for enhancing fruit quality through horticultural plant cultivation.

Prof. Dr. Dongliang Qiu
Dr. Caihong Zhong
Guest Editors

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