New Insights into Protected Horticulture Stress

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 670

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Horticulture Department, Shenyang Agricultural University, No. 120 Dongling Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110866, China
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Dear Colleagues,

Facility horticultural stresses, such as light, salt, temperature, water extremes, pathogens, and pests, are the primary causes of horticultural crop loss worldwide. Horticultural crop resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses stretches from the physiological level to the molecular level. With this Special Issue, titled “New Insights into Protected Horticulture Stress”, we welcome new research focused on the interactions of plants and environmental factors that can cause negative effects on plant growth and survival. We particularly welcome papers on environmental stress perception, signaling, and mechanistic responses at all levels.

Prof. Dr. Yufeng Liu
Dr. Xiangnan Meng
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Keywords

  • stresses
  • plant
  • physiological
  • molecular
  • salt
  • temperature
  • water extremes
  • pathogens
  • pests

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Physiological and Transcriptomic Analysis of Citrus Fruit Segment Drying under Facility-Forcing Cultivation
by Longfei Jin, Mingxia Wen, Feng Liu, Bei Huang and Peng Wang
Horticulturae 2024, 10(8), 807; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080807 - 30 Jul 2024
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Facility-forcing cultivation could effectively improve the quality of ‘Beni Madonna’ citrus (Citrus nankao × C. amakusa) and advance the ripening period. However, segment drying (KS) before harvest caused fruit quality deterioration and commodity value loss. In this research, we investigated the [...] Read more.
Facility-forcing cultivation could effectively improve the quality of ‘Beni Madonna’ citrus (Citrus nankao × C. amakusa) and advance the ripening period. However, segment drying (KS) before harvest caused fruit quality deterioration and commodity value loss. In this research, we investigated the physiological and molecular characteristics involved in citrus segment drying under facility-forcing cultivation. The juice yield, sugar, acid, vitamin C, and lignin contents in KS fruits were significantly decreased, and the contents of pectin and cellulose were significantly increased. The relative contents of abscisic acid and abscisic acid glucosyl ester in KS fruits were significantly decreased. A total of 1215 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by transcriptome sequencing. DEGs were significantly enriched in water metabolism, sugar metabolism, transportation, cell wall and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, and plant hormone signal transduction. The decrease in water absorption and sugar synthesis, the increase of pectin and cellulose synthesis, and the decrease in ABA accumulation may be the main reasons that cause citrus fruit segments to dry under facility-forcing cultivation. Full article
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