Postharvest Ripening Physiology of Crops is a comprehensive interdisciplinary reference source for the various aspects of fruit ripening and postharvest behavior. It focuses on the postharvest physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of ripening and provides an overview of fruits and vegetables, including chapters on the postharvest quality of ornamental plants and molecular biology of flower senescence.

It describes various developments that have taken place in the last decade with respect to identifying and altering the function of ripening-related genes. Taking clues from...

Because they meet the needs of today s consumers, fresh-cut plant products are currently one of the hottest commodities in the food market of industrialized countries. However, fresh-cut produce deteriorates faster than the correspondent intact produce. The main purpose of Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables: Technology, Physiology, and Safety is to provide helpful guidelines to the industry for minimizing deterioration, keeping the overall quality, and lengthening the shelf life. It provides an integrated and interdisciplinary approach for accomplishing the challenges, where raw...

Preserving quality, maintaining nutritional components, reducing storage losses, and alleviating chilling injury are the major challenges for the fresh produce industry. This book examines the shelf life, quality, physico-chemical and biochemical changes during the storage. It discusses the latest developments made in novel postharvest treatments, storage and packaging. The latest technologies such as nitric oxide, ozone, methyl Jasmonate, salicylic acid, oxalic acid, calcium and heat treatments are discussed at length with focus on physiology, biochemistry, nutritional aspects, quality...

Fruits and vegetables are more perishable crops than cereal, pulses and oil seed crops. Depending on the type and degree of infection, they can largely deteriorate during storage causing considerable postharvest losses. In addition, contamination by mycotoxins also pose consumer health risks. This comprehensive book describes the most important postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, their symptoms, key aspects related to infection and epidemiology, and both conventional and innovative management strategies. Particular fruit diseases are discussed, as are molecular insights in...

This book, chock full of color illustrations, addresses the main postharvest physiological disorders studied in fruits and vegetables. For a wide variety of fruits and vegetables the book describes visual symptoms, triggering and inhibiting mechanisms, and approaches to predict and control these disorders after harvest. Color photographs illustrate the disorders, important factors, physiology, and management Although there are many scientific publications on postharvest physiological disorders, there are no recent reviews or books putting together the most recent information about the...