Advances in Agricultural Preharvest Products Management
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Product Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 2135
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pre-harvest; antioxidants; polyphenols, fruit quality; gene expression; metabolic pathways
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Success in fruits and vegetables marketing is determined by the products' quality and shelf life. Fruits and vegetables are also an important source of health-promoting bioactive compounds and are consumed in people's daily diets worldwide. The management of agricultural products has improved in recent years. However, some agronomical practices applied at the pre-harvest stage are more oriented to productivity than to quality. For many years, the solution to the issues of agricultural products has been focused on the post-harvest stage. Nevertheless, it is increasingly evident that proper crop management is essential to ensure the quality of the products. Irrigation, fertilization and pest management have been extensively studied with the aim of enhancing the quality traits of fruits and vegetables. In this sense, increasing the knowledge about the importance of metabolic networks regulating ripening and senescence could be a new approach to improve product management. Thus, the developmental stage at which fruits and vegetables are harvested and the technology to properly determine their quality has received considerable attention.
Dr. Vicente Serna-Escolano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crop production
- crop management
- fruit quality
- antioxidant compounds
- ripening
- fertigation
- pre-harvest treatments
