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Enhancing Fruit Crops Resilience and Productivity to Climate Change
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Enhancing Fruit Crops Resilience and Productivity to Climate Change

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 5954

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Prof. Dr. Jer-Chia Chang

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Department of Horticulture, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
Interests: physiology and productivity of fruit crops; ecophysiology; photosynthesis; sink-source relations; reproductive biology
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Dear Colleagues,

An annual cycle of fruit crops mainly includes stages such as vegetative growth, environmental or physiological dormancy, and reproductive growth, each depending on specific environmental factors. Therefore, growth, development, and survival of fruit crops are highly sensitive to climates and, thus, optimal climatic conditions can maximize fruit production.

Climate change and global warming have contributed to the rise of global temperature by around 1.0°C between 1880 and 2019, resulting in increasing the incidence and intensity of extreme weather events in most fruit crop production regions, thereby reducing fruit productivity. Negative impacts of environmental stresses related to water (deficit, drought, and waterlogging), solar radiation (sun burn and photoinhibition), salinity, temperature (heat, chilling, and freezing), wind, and air quality (rising CO2) that affect fruit crop productivity, especially during the initiation and development of flowers, fruit growth, dormancy and acclimations, have been remarkably accelerated during the past two decades.

Systematic research on the resilience of fruit crops and its application by adjusting varieties, shifting production regions, improving orchard management, and industrial developmental strategies to meet the challenges of climate change are undoubtedly important. In recent years, research achievements on grasping the interactions between fruit crops resilience and environmental variables have made great progress. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish the latest studies or reviews of all aspects of fruit crops resilience as a reference for future research on sustainable development of the fruit crops industry.

Prof. Dr. Jer-Chia Chang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • climate change
  • fruit crops
  • resilience
  • genetic
  • breeding
  • physiology
  • productivity
  • smart agriculture
  • climatic suitability
  • modeling

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Increased Temperature Affects Tomato Fruit Physicochemical Traits at Harvest Depending on Fruit Developmental Stage and Genotype
by Victoria A. Delgado-Vargas, Oscar J. Ayala-Garay, Ma. de Lourdes Arévalo-Galarza and Hélène Gautier
Horticulturae 2023, 9(2), 212; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9020212 - 05 Feb 2023
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In this study, we investigated how increasing temperature affects tomato fruit physicochemical traits and looked for genetic variability to help maintain fruit quality in the context of climate change. High temperature (HT: +3 °C) was applied at four fruit developmental stages, from anthesis [...] Read more.
In this study, we investigated how increasing temperature affects tomato fruit physicochemical traits and looked for genetic variability to help maintain fruit quality in the context of climate change. High temperature (HT: +3 °C) was applied at four fruit developmental stages, from anthesis and 15, 30 or 45 days after anthesis until ripening to three genotypes, a commercial cultivar (Money Maker, “MM”) and two genotypes likely more tolerant to HT (Campeche 40 “C40”, a landrace from a warm, humid region, and a hybrid Chapingo F1, “F1”, resulting from crossbreeding landraces tolerant to high temperature). Increasing average diurnal temperature (from 27.0 to 29.9) reduced fruit firmness and size and affected fruit composition according to genotype. Sugar and acid contents were highly impacted in MM and C40 fruits, especially when HT was applied during the rapid fruit growth period. The application of HT at different fruit developmental stages revealed that HT could enhance acid accumulation and degradation (rate and/or duration), resulting in different effects on fruit acidity between genotypes. The F1 genotype appeared to be more adapted to HT, producing larger fruits with higher sugar, lower acid and increased vitamin C and calcium content. These results provide interesting directions for breeding programs that want to maintain future tomato fruit yields and quality. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing Fruit Crops Resilience and Productivity to Climate Change)
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“60 Years on”—Effects of Climatic Change on Tree Phenology—A Case Study Using Pome Fruit
by Achim Kunz and Michael Blanke
Horticulturae 2022, 8(2), 110; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8020110 - 26 Jan 2022
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Phenological records of apple and pear trees, including flowering, harvest and leaf drop, and concomitant weather records at Klein-Altendorf (50° N) near Bonn, Germany were correlated using two approaches: (a) linear curve fitting and (b) comparison of mean values of the first 30 [...] Read more.
Phenological records of apple and pear trees, including flowering, harvest and leaf drop, and concomitant weather records at Klein-Altendorf (50° N) near Bonn, Germany were correlated using two approaches: (a) linear curve fitting and (b) comparison of mean values of the first 30 years (1956–1988) versus the recent 30 years of climate change (1989–2017). The annual air temperature increased by 1.7 °C from 8.6 °C in 1958 to 10.3 °C in 2017 over the last 60 years and similarly in the vegetation period (1 April–30 October) from 13.7 °C in 1958 to 15.2 °C in 2017 by 1.5 °C. The combination of stronger increase in winter temperatures (by +1.2 °C) than in the summer (air +1.0 °C) with advanced bud break and −0.3 °C lower minimum temperatures in April during flowering resulted a continued risk of a late frost, as experienced in 2017. The strongest climate change effect, i.e., 11–14 days advanced flowering (in apple and pear) highly correlated (R2 −0.7) with the March/April temperature. Fruit ontogeny was 4 days shorter in cv. ‘Lucas’ pear, but 5 days longer in cv. ‘Cox’ and 10 days longer in cv. ‘Boskoop’, but remained unchanged in cv. ‘Golden Delicious’, irrespective of early or late ripening variety and contradictory climate effects, fruit matured 4–12 days earlier indicating its sole dependency on variety. Climate data and (earlier) harvest date closely correlated (R2: 0.6–0.7). The lowest correlation was between canopy duration (bloom to leaf fall), which was consistently extended by 6–10 days and the leaf drop stage beginning 2–4 days earlier. The correlations indicated that the Meckenheim fruit growing region is strongly affected by climate change and the comparison between two equally-balanced 30-year phases gave more realistic results than linear curve fitting. Full article
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