Postharvest Storage of Soft Fruits: New Insights from Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 1454
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transcription factors; plant stress; biochemistry; genetics and molecular biology; postharvest
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Interests: transcriptome profile; grape; high CO2 impact; postharvest; abiotic stress; molecular biology; post harvest technology; fruit quality; plant physiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Soft fruit are highly valued due to their flavor and health benefits, but they have a short postharvest life period. Fruit softening is one of the main factors contributing to their deterioration and has an important impact on red fruit loss. Another important quality factor to be maintained in soft berries during postharvest is their nutritional value. In fact, soft fruit are especially appreciated and considered as “superfoods” because of their high content in antioxidants. Those compounds are mainly represented by vitamin C and polyphenols such as phenolic acids, flavonoids (anthocyanins, flavanols, and flavonols), and tannins, which, in red fruit, are altered by many factors, including postharvest storage conditions. The development of high-throughput omics techniques such as transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic approaches have become viable options to support traditional postharvest research. This Special Issue of Plants aims to bring together the most relevant results using omics technologies applied to the study of soft fruit during their postharvest preservation.
Dr. Irene Romero
Dr. M. Teresa Sanchez-Ballesta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft fruit
- postharvest quality
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
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