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Stress Cultivation and Physiology of Vegetables: Challenges and Prospects
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Stress Cultivation and Physiology of Vegetables: Challenges and Prospects

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Vegetable Production Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2023) | Viewed by 2239

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhangjian Hu

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Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: plant stress response; plant redox biology; calcium signals; peptide signals
Dr. Chaoyi Hu

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Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University, Sanya 572024, China
Interests: jasmonate biosynthesis; electrical signals; calcium signals; herbivory resistant; biotic stress

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Vegetable production is one of the most important industries in agriculture systems. Vegetable crops consist of a wide range of species and the edible organs of different vegetables are varied, such as roots, leaves, stems, and fruits. During cultivation, vegetable crops are challenged with a lot of environmental stresses, including heat, cold, salinity, drought, fluctuating lights, pathogens, viruses, and herbivores. It is necessary and of great significance to extend the knowledge of the ‘Stress Cultivation and Physiology of Vegetables’, including the role of phytohormones in stress cultivation and physiology of vegetable crops, using transcriptomics or metabolomics to reveal the mechanism of how vegetable crops respond to biotic or abiotic stresses, new technologies of vegetable stress cultivation improvement, breeding of high-quality vegetable germplasm with high tolerance, and green control of disease or herbivores of vegetable crops. These are just a few examples of the research topics which are dealt with in this Special Issue. Relevant research papers on the topic of ‘Stress Cultivation and Physiology of Vegetables: Challenges and Prospects’, as well as reviews are all welcomed.

Dr. Zhangjian Hu
Dr. Chaoyi Hu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vegetables
  • biotic stress
  • abiotic stress
  • phytohormones
  • signal transduction
  • transcriptomics
  • metabolomics

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Effects of Irrigation Patterns Combining Severe Wilting with Complete or Incomplete Recovery by an Irrigation Control System Based on Photographs of Plants on High-Brix Tomatoes
by Fei Zhao, Hideo Yoshida, Eiji Goto and Shoko Hikosaka
Horticulturae 2023, 9(10), 1143; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9101143 - 18 Oct 2023
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We investigated the effects of irrigation patterns combining severe wilting with complete (S_R) or incomplete recovery (S_IR) on the growth, photosynthesis, fruit quality, and yield using a photograph-based irrigation control system. The study was performed in winter with a single sufficient irrigation treatment [...] Read more.
We investigated the effects of irrigation patterns combining severe wilting with complete (S_R) or incomplete recovery (S_IR) on the growth, photosynthesis, fruit quality, and yield using a photograph-based irrigation control system. The study was performed in winter with a single sufficient irrigation treatment as Control, S_R, and S_IR. The daily mean maximum of the wilting ratios (W) in the S_R and S_IR was 15.1% and 15.3%, respectively, when W was set at 14%. S_R had the lowest total irrigation frequency of the three treatments. The accumulated cumulative wilting ratio in S_IR was 1.6 times that in S_R. Under water stress, the net photosynthetic rate decreased (S_IR < S_R), rapidly recovering to 73% and 80% of the maximum values following irrigation, respectively. The total amount of irrigation, the plant growth, and the yield were the highest in the Control and those of S_R and S_IR were comparable. S_IR produced the highest-quality fruit. The recovery level affected the fruit quality when the threshold values were similar; therefore, S_IR is appropriate to produce high-Brix tomatoes in winter. Conclusively, the image-based irrigation system could precisely and reproducibly control the irrigation (the most important parameter affecting the growth, yield, and fruit quality of tomatoes) to improve the fruit quality. Full article
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Copper and Zinc Accumulation in Young Leaves of Eruca sativa (L.) Grown in Soilless Culture
by Antonios Chrysargyris, Rita Maggini, Luca Incrocci, Alberto Pardossi and Nikolaos Tzortzakis
Horticulturae 2023, 9(9), 976; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9090976 - 29 Aug 2023
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Heavy metals are environmental pollutants that cause toxicity in plants and represent a risk for human health, linked to bioaccumulation through the food chain. However, excess accumulation may not occur in young plants in the early stages of exposure to the toxic element. [...] Read more.
Heavy metals are environmental pollutants that cause toxicity in plants and represent a risk for human health, linked to bioaccumulation through the food chain. However, excess accumulation may not occur in young plants in the early stages of exposure to the toxic element. In the present work, rocket (Eruca sativa L.) plants grown in hydroponics were exposed for three weeks to excess concentrations (25, 50, or 100 µM) of Cu or Zn in the nutrient solution and were more sensitive to Cu than Zn toxicity. However, a significant decrease in the leaf biomass production as compared with the control was observed only after two or three weeks, and only minor signals of metal-induced adverse effects were evidenced concerning photosynthesis, oxidative stress indicators, antioxidant metabolites, and macronutrients. After two or three weeks, the leaf level of Cu occasionally approached the upper value associated with the recommended limits of dietary intake for human adults. However, as rocket leaves are commercialized when they achieve a 10–15 cm length, after one week of cultivation in perlite, the plants had an adequate size without metal contamination and could be considered suitable for the food market, even after exposure to Cu or Zn concentrations up to 100 µM. Full article
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