Advances in Jujube Research, Second Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editors
Interests: jujube cultivar trials; cultivar selection; genotyping; nutrition; metabolomics
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Interests: nutrition and processing of jujube
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Jujube Research, Second Edition”, is dedicated to research on the biology, genetics and breeding, ecology, post-harvest treatment, and nutritional status of jujube, but will also cover other aspects of the life of these plants.
Jujube (Ziziphus) is an outstanding multipurpose economic plant with great potential in drought-prone and marginal districts. Chinese jujube (Z. jujuba Mill.) and Indian jujube or ber (Z. mauritiana Lam.) are the two main economically valuable species. The commercial and experimental cultivation of jujube takes place mostly in China, Pakistan, India, Iran, Korea, Japan, Australia, the USA, Italy, Romania, and Israel. However, jujube is still a relatively unknown and underutilized horticultural plant.
This Special Issue aims to gather current knowledge on various aspects of jujube research. We invite researchers to submit review articles, full-length original papers, communications, short overviews, or comments that cover various aspects of jujube’s biology, genetics and breeding, ecology and post-harvest treatment, nutrition, and so on.
Dr. Shengrui Yao
Dr. Zhihui Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- jujube
- biology
- breeding
- genotyping
- metabolomics
- nutrition
- post-harvest treatment
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