Horticulturae Webinar | New Strategies for Revalorisation and Postharvest Maintenance of Fruit and Vegetables, 16 December 2025

Message from the webinar chair Dr. Noelia Castillejo:

We would like to invite you to attend a special webinar celebrating the 10^th anniversary of Horticulturae (ISSN: 2311-7524). I am Noelia Castillejo from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain), and it is my pleasure to serve as the Chair for this webinar, “New Strategies for Revalorisation and Postharvest Maintenance of Fruit and Vegetables”.

Over the past decade, Horticulturae has provided a vibrant forum for advancing horticultural science and accelerating the translation of research into practice. This program will reflect that spirit—bringing together complementary perspectives on how we can extract more value from fruit and vegetable resources while preserving quality throughout the postharvest chain.

We will be honored to host three distinguished talks:

“Innovative Uses and Extractions of Fruit and Vegetable By-Products: A New Frontier in Plant-Based Foods”—with Dr. Lorena Martínez-Zamora, we will explore cutting-edge extraction and valorization approaches that transform side streams into high-value ingredients;
“Revalorisation of Agro-Industrial By-Products to Develop New Valuable and Functional Foods Through Fermentation Processes”—with Dr. José Ángel Salas-Millán, we will highlight bioprocessing strategies—especially fermentation—to unlock functionality, safety, and sensory appeal in novel foods;
“Non-Destructive Analysis for Food Products with Applications to Fruit and Vegetables”—with Dr. Danial Fatchurrahman, we will examine rapid, non-invasive tools that enable real-time quality assessment and better decision-making from harvest to consumer.

Date: 16 December 2025
Time: 4:00 p.m. CET | 10:00 a.m. EST | 11:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 882 9295 5534

Program

Speaker/Presentation	Time in CET	Time in EST
Dr. Noelia Castillejo Chair Introduction	4:00–4:10 p.m.	10:00–10:10 a.m.
Dr. Lorena Martínez-Zamora Innovative Uses and Extractions of Fruit and Vegetable By-Products: A New Frontier in Plant-Based Foods	4:10–4:30 p.m.	10:20–10:30 a.m.
Dr. José Ángel Salas-Millán Revalorisation of Agro-Industrial By-Products to Develop New Valuable and Functional Foods Through Fermentation Processes	4:30–4:50 p.m.	10:30–10:50 a.m.
Dr. Danial Fatchurrahman Non-Destructive Analysis for Food Products With the Application on Fruit and Vegetables	4:50–5:10 p.m.	10:50–11:10 a.m.
Q&A Session	5:10–5:25 p.m.	10:10–10:25 a.m.
Dr. Noelia Castillejo Closing of Webinar	5:25–5:30 p.m.	10:25–10:30 a.m.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Unable to attend? Feel free to register anyway; the session will be recorded, and we will let you know when the recording is available for viewing.

Webinar Chair and Speakers:

Dr. Noelia Castillejo, Postharvest and Refrigeration Group, Department of Agronomical Engineering and Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain;
Dr. Lorena Martínez-Zamora, Departamento de Biología Aplicada, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. De la Universidad, s/n (Edificio Vinalopó), Elche, Alicante, Spain;
Dr. José Ángel Salas Millán, APC Microbiome, University College Cork, Ireland;
Dr. Danial Fatchurrahman, Postharvest Technology, Department of Agriculture, Food, Natural Science, Engineering, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.

Relevant Special Issue:
“Postharvest Biology and Technology of Horticultural Crops”
Guest Editors: Dr. Noelia Castillejo and Dr. Danial Fatchurrahman
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 April 2026

For more information about this webinar, please visit the following website: https://sciforum.net/event/Horticulturae-4?subscribe.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact horticulturae@mdpi.com.

Horticulture Webinar Secretariat