Effects of Environmental Stress on Fruit Physiology, Growth and Quality
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 6589
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecophysiology of fruit crops; effects of environmental factors on fruit growth and quality; plant resistance to pathogenic fungi and protection by mycorrhization; water use efficiency and wastewater management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: ecophysiology of fruit crops; effects of environmental factors and on fruit growth and quality; orchard management systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental factors such as light, temperature, water, humidity, and nutrition influence plant physiology and are considered very important in determining growth and quality of fruits. Fruit crops are currently facing a combination of new challenges such as rising ozone levels, deviations in temperature trends, shifts in rainfall patterns, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters due to global climate change. However, it is very difficult to predict and generalize the risks of climate change scenarios in seasonal patterns of growth, development, yield, and quality of fruit species since the responses of plants are often highly complex and involve changes at multiple levels. The understanding of the effects of environmental stresses on fruit crops is vital to help scientists and farmers to mitigate their effects on yield, growth, and quality of fruits.
This Special Issue will accept papers from a broad scope of interdisciplinary research on impacts of environmental stress on fruit physiology, growth, and quality ranging from basic molecular biology to breeding. Ecological and meteorological studies in this area fall within the scope. Original research papers, methods, reviews, and perspectives are also welcome.
Particularly welcome are research papers on the following topics:
- Fruit crop resistance to environmental change;
- Strategies to increase water-use efficiency in fruit crops;
- Survival ability of traditional Mediterranean fruit and nut crops;
- Interactions between fruit and its microflora in relation to postharvest diseases, fruit quality, and safety;
- Applications of postharvest ultraviolet radiation in fruits;
- Heavy metals in orchard soils and fruits and their health risks;
- Use of reclaimed wastewater on fruit quality and safety.
Dr. Eunice Areal Bacelar
Dr. Ana Paula Silva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental stress factors
- affecting
- fruits
- quality on growth and quality of fruits
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