Applications of Pre- and Post-Harvest Techniques in Horticultural Products—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 291
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vegetable genetics and functional genomics; bioinformatics; abiotic stress response; biotechnology
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Interests: postharvest biology and technology; germplasm resources; fruit development and quality formation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following on from the success of our first Special Issue of Agronomy, entitled “Applications of Pre- and Post-Harvest Techniques in Horticultural Products”, the Editorial Office is pleased to launch a second edition of this Special Issue.
Horticultural products include fruits, vegetables, flowers, and tea, which are indispensable elements for people's daily food security, dietary structure improvement, micronutrient supplementation, and life beautification. However, most horticultural products are fresh agricultural products with a high physiological metabolism and high water content, which are not ideal for storage and transportation after harvesting, and post-harvest aging and pathogen infection seriously affect the flavor and nutritional quality. Pre-harvest and post-harvest treatments, especially technological innovations, play an important role in guiding the preservation and storage of horticultural products. Post-harvest pre-cooling, refrigerated storage, post-harvest heat treatment, improved atmospheric packaging, the application of exogenous chemicals, and other physical or chemical methods are common practices used to minimize the post-harvest losses of horticultural products.
This Special Issue, entitled “Applications of Pre- and Post-Harvest Techniques in Horticultural Products—2nd Edition”, will focus on new developments in our understanding of horticultural product storage technology, pre-harvest factors and storage effects, post-harvest physiology, and commercialization treatment technology.
We invite researchers to contribute both original research articles and reviews to this Special Issue.
Dr. Mengyao Li
Prof. Dr. Ya Luo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural products
- pre-harvest and post-harvest techniques
- biological characteristics
- nutritional quality
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