Postharvest Physiology and Biochemistry of Fruits and Vegetables—2nd Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 614
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physiological disorder; chilling injury; food quality and safety; plant cell wall metabolism; oligosaccharin
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Interests: postharvest quality; nutritional and phytochemical composition; natural defense mechanisms; plant defense-related enzymes; biochemistry responses to biotic/abiotic stresses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, recurrent food losses of up to 1.3 million tons each year cause environmental, social, and economic problems worldwide. Since fresh fruits and vegetables are highly perishable foods, an large proportion of the loss and waste of horticultural products occurs during postharvest storage due to inadequate and insufficient management systems and technology leading to accelerated senescence, dehydration, mechanical injury, and pathogen infections. Common conservation technologies for fresh fruit and vegetables, such as chemical preservatives and refrigeration, may trigger physiological disorders that affect their quality, nutrient content, and safety. Therefore, to deal with the current challenges for food provision, such as the development of efficient postharvest management systems, we encourage the submission of research offering strategies to decrease the loss and waste of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other plant organs, including flowers, roots, and stems, with focus on biochemical and molecular events related to their physiology.
Works evaluating how preharvest agroecological practices influence the postharvest quality and safety of fresh horticultural products are also welcome.
Dr. Miguel Ángel Martínez-Téllez
Dr. Jose J. Virgen-Ortíz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crops
- shelf life
- active coatings
- postharvest physiological disorders
- plant cell wall metabolism during postharvest storage
- quality and safety during postharvest storage
- elicitors of physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses
- preharvest agroecological practices
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