Novel Approaches to Control Postharvest Loss and Quality Deterioration of Fruits

Dear Colleagues,

For postharvest fruits, due to physiological and pathological factors, flesh softening, tissue browning, external wilting, etc., are common phenomena, especially under abiotic and biotic stress and in addition to fungal-induced decay, resulting in a decline in commodity value and severe economic loss reaching more than 30%. Therefore, delaying quality deterioration and reducing decay are the keys to suppressing the postharvest loss of fruits. Reasonable preharvest and postharvest treatments effectively maintain nutritional quality, delay senescence, and enable fruits to maintain a high commodity value. Recently, marked progress has been made in the application of new technologies such as 1-MCP (1-methylcyclopropene), NO (nitric oxide), SA (salicylic acid) and melatonin treatments, functional MAP (modified atmosphere package), rapid CA (controlled atmosphere), ULO (ultra-low oxygen) and DCA (dynamic controlled atmosphere) storage. In the future, efficient and environmentally friendly technologies should be utilized to maintain fruits' freshness and nutritional quality, in order to further prolong their storage time and improve their economic benefits. Thus, papers on preharvest and postharvest treatments to improve the storage quality of fruit, mechanisms to elucidate fruit quality deterioration and decay, and new techniques to control postharvest loss during storage and transport are welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Junfeng Guan
Prof. Dr. Yuxin Yao
Guest Editors

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• fruit
• quality deterioration
• postharvest loss
• CA
• MAP
• decay