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Postharvest Biology and Storage of Fruits and Vegetables
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Postharvest Biology and Storage of Fruits and Vegetables

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2948

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Shifeng Cao

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College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315100, China
Interests: storage quality; shelf life; postharvest disorder
Prof. Dr. Zhenfeng Yang

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Guest Editor
College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315100, China
Interests: storage quality; shelf life; postharvest disorder

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

There is an increasing demand for fresh produce at the consumer level because of awareness being raised regarding the health benefits of fresh, natural foods compared to processed products. This is due to active encouragement by health agencies and public media as well as several medical studies demonstrating the various health benefits of consuming fresh produce. Fruits and vegetables, unfortunately, are highly perishable in nature, which limits their storage life and causes significant deterioration following harvest. Postharvest losses can occur at any point in the production and marketing chain. To reduce these losses, the first step is understanding the causes of deterioration in fruit and vegetables, followed by utilizing appropriate and affordable technological procedures to slow the softening process, improve flavor quality, enhance nutritional quality, reduce browning potential, decrease susceptibility to chilling injury, and/or increase resistance to postharvest decay-causing pathogens.

This Special Issue welcomes both original research articles and critical reviews that consider the state-of-the-art research on harvested fruit and vegetables, which deals with (but is not limited to) the physiological changes during postharvest storage, the metabolic pathways of key components related to fruit and vegetable quality, and novel postharvest treatments and technologies to alleviate postharvest disorders and reduce losses.

Dr. Shifeng Cao
Prof. Dr. Zhenfeng Yang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • storage quality
  • shelf life
  • postharvest physiology
  • postharvest disorder

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Dissecting the Role of Cell Wall Changes in Chilling Injury-Induced Gel Formation, Rubberiness, and Mealiness in Apricots
by C. Jill Stanley, Claire Scofield, Ian C. Hallett and Roswitha Schröder
Horticulturae 2023, 9(10), 1115; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9101115 - 09 Oct 2023
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In apricots and other stonefruit, chilling injury (CI) symptoms like mealiness, rubberiness, and gel formation are associated with cell wall properties. Apricots were stored at 0 °C for 5 weeks and ripened at 20 °C to induce CI and compared with fruit ripened [...] Read more.
In apricots and other stonefruit, chilling injury (CI) symptoms like mealiness, rubberiness, and gel formation are associated with cell wall properties. Apricots were stored at 0 °C for 5 weeks and ripened at 20 °C to induce CI and compared with fruit ripened at 20 °C from harvest at similar firmness. In those apricots without CI, degradation of middle-lamella pectin during softening weakened cell-cell adhesion and intercellular junctions. Pectin was still present in middle lamella regions but pectin that filled the intercellular spaces at harvest had disappeared. Fruit with combinations of CI symptoms showed different pectin solubilities, molecular weight distribution, and differences in pectin staining compared with fruit that were severely chilling-injured, exhibiting all symptoms. The perception of mealiness correlated with the presence of pectin in the cell lumen, and rubberiness with the presence of pectin in tricellular corners. We concluded that in chilling-injured apricots, the normal softening process is not being resumed after fruit have been taken out of cold storage. Cell wall degradation is disrupted, affecting the normal weakening of cell walls during softening. Hence, cell walls were less likely to break open during chewing, and when cells did break, any juice released might be bound by pectin present in the cell walls and cell lumen, leaving a sensation of rubberiness and mealiness. Full article
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Advancements and Applications of Raman Spectroscopy in Rapid Quality and Safety Detection of Fruits and Vegetables
by Sai Xu, Xiongmei Huang and Huazhong Lu
Horticulturae 2023, 9(7), 843; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9070843 - 24 Jul 2023
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With the improvement in living standards, consumers have become more aware of healthy diets and pay more attention to the quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen the research on rapid detection of the quality and safety [...] Read more.
With the improvement in living standards, consumers have become more aware of healthy diets and pay more attention to the quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen the research on rapid detection of the quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. This study mainly outlines five Raman spectroscopy techniques. It introduces their principles and advantages and the current research progress of their application in fruit and vegetable quality and safety detection. Based on the characteristic Raman spectroscopy analysis of different fruits and vegetables, researchers found that Raman spectroscopy techniques can quickly and accurately detect classification identification, ripeness, freshness, disease infestation, and surface pesticide residues of fruits and vegetables. In addition, Raman spectroscopy techniques can also detect the content and distribution of material components of fruits and vegetables. This paper also discusses Raman spectroscopy’s current technology and application difficulties in fruit and vegetable quality and safety testing. It looks forward to its future development trend, expecting to promote the broad application of Raman spectroscopy in fruit and vegetable quality and safety testing. Full article
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