**About the Editors**

**Eleni Tsantili** is Professor of Pomology at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece. She was awarded a diploma of Agriculture from AUA in 1981 and PhD degree from Wye College, University of London, UK, in 1988, for postharvest research. She conducted a sabbatical for research purposes and visited the Postharvest Laboratory, Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, USA. Since 2015, she has served as Full Professor of Pomology and Director of the Postharvest Laboratory. She teaches theoretical and lab courses of General Pomology, Temperate and Subtropical Trees, and Postharvest Fruit Biology and Technology to graduate and postgraduate students. She specializes in the physiology, biochemistry and technology of fruits during their postharvest life. She has participated in projects in England, USA and Greece. Her current interests include the development of defense responses to abiotic conditions, growth regulators, pre- and postharvest treatments, fruit storage in controlled or modified atmosphere, fruit quality and nutritional value.

**Jinhe Bai**, PhD, is a research chemist in the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Horticultural Research Laboratory at Fort Pierce, Florida, USA. He completed his BSc and MSc in Horticulture at Shanxi Agriculture University and Northwest A & F University (both in China) and PhD at Osaka Prefecture University (Japan). He has worked in the horticultural and food industries, research institutes, and universities before his present position. His main research interest concerns preservation of the postharvest quality of fruits and vegetables. Specific areas of expertise include controlled-atmosphere storage, modified atmosphere packaging, edible coating technologies, and the discovery of how internal and environmental factors influence metabolism and further impact the flavor and nutritional quality of horticultural crops. His research efforts are supported by well-equipped laboratory equipment and state-of-the-art technologies, such as GC–MS and LC–MS/MS, used to identify and quantify volatile and nonvolatile metabolites.
