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Smart and Sustainable Development of Nonarboreal Berry Crops
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Smart and Sustainable Development of Nonarboreal Berry Crops

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1316

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Elisa Senger

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Forschungszentrum Julich, CEPLAS, BioSC, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG4 Bioinformat, 52428 Julich, Germany
Interests: plant breeding; agronomy; genetic resources; metabolomics; genomics; environmental stresses; plant physiology; food production
Dr. Edoardo Gatti

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Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Bologna, Italy
Interests: food sensory analysis; consumer science; food habits; sensory lexica; food quality

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Berries form an important part of the human diet providing vitamins, minerals, and secondary metabolites that have positive health effects. They can be appreciated as fresh snacks or processed products due to their taste and properties, and the demand for high-quality berries has increased globally. In order to meet challenges such as climate change, increasing production costs and rapidly changing food trends, innovative breeding strategies, screening tools, and materials are needed. This Special Issue aims to present recent developments that have pushed forward the smart and sustainable development of berries, focusing on nonarboreal berry crops such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and currants, among others. Topics include, but are not limited to, the characterization of genetic resources, pre-breeding materials and cultivars, metabolic profiling with a focus on sensory attributes and health properties, breeding methods and biotechnology tools, genotype and environment interactions, cultivation practices and agronomic considerations, multiple omics fields such as metabolomics, genomics, and similar, plant stress responses, and post-harvest as well as consumer science and sensory evaluations. We welcome reviews, original research, and descriptions of new methods and tools.

Dr. Elisa Senger
Dr. Edoardo Gatti
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • berries
  • characterization
  • genetic resources
  • breeding methods
  • breeding tools
  • agronomy
  • cultivation practices
  • resilience
  • fruit quality
  • sensory evaluation
  • consumer science
  • omics data

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Evaluation of the Harvest Dates for Three Major Cultivars of Blue Honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) in China
by Min Yu, Songlin Li, Ying Zhan, Zhiqiang Huang, Jinjiao Lv, Yu Liu, Xin Quan, Jinyu Xiong, Dong Qin, Junwei Huo and Chenqiao Zhu
Plants 2023, 12(21), 3758; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12213758 - 02 Nov 2023
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Blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) is an emerging fruit crop; however, determining its proper harvest time in commercial cultivation remains challenging due to its rapid fruit development characteristics. In this study, we investigated 17 agronomic traits of three blue honeysuckle cultivars harvested [...] Read more.
Blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) is an emerging fruit crop; however, determining its proper harvest time in commercial cultivation remains challenging due to its rapid fruit development characteristics. In this study, we investigated 17 agronomic traits of three blue honeysuckle cultivars harvested on 5 successive dates within their respective harvest windows. ‘Lanjingling’, ‘Wulan’, and ‘Berel’ showed solid–acid ratios (SS:TA) ranging from 10.00 to 16.01, 8.13 to 10.23, and 5.77 to 7.11, respectively; anthocyanin contents ranged from 233.85 to 276.83 mg/100 g, 236.38 to 312.23 mg/100 g, and 235.71 to 334.98 mg/100 g, respectively; vitamin C contents ranged from 88.43 to 99.68 mg/100 g, 108.13 to 191.23 mg/100 g, and 89.71 to 120.40 mg/100 g, respectively; phenolic contents ranged from 25.22 to 37.59 mg/g, 25.40 to 36.52 mg/g, and 37.66 to 50.00 mg/g, respectively. The results revealed the SS:TA value consistently increased with delayed harvesting and were significantly negatively correlated with fruit firmness, total acidity, shelf life, and respiration intensity, suggesting it is an ideal maturity indicator for blue honeysuckle berries. The factor analysis suggests that the suitable harvest date for ‘Lanjingling’ could be either 47 days after flowering (DAF) with an SS:TA value of approximately 10.0, characterized by high firmness, extended shelf life, and elevated levels of anthocyanins and phenolics; or 67 DAF (SS:TA ≈ 16.0), characterized by high vitamin C content and sweetness, and larger size and weight. For ‘Wulan’, it suggests the suitable harvest date is either 54 DAF (SS:TA ≈ 9.0), yielding fruit with high levels of anthocyanins and vitamin C; or 62 DAF (SS:TA > 10.0), yielding fruit with high sweetness and large size and weight. For ‘Berel’, it is suggested to be either 52 DAF (SS:TA ≈ 6.5), resulting in fruit with high levels of anthocyanins and vitamin C; or 62 DAF (SS:TA > 7.0), resulting in balanced levels of the fruit quality traits. Full article
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