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More than one third of harvested fruit and vegetables are lost and do not reach the customers mainly due to postharvest decay. During the last decade, several postharvest fungicides have been excluded from the market, or their allowed residues have been significantly decreased. Therefore, there is growing interest in eco-friendly and safe alternatives to synthetic fungicides. Induced resistance has gained increasing attention as a sustainable strategy to manage postharvest decay of fruit and vegetables. Their natural resistance can be increased by various means, such as biocontrol agents or their secreted elicitors. Alternatively, physical means, such as UV-C, ozone, and heat treatment, can prime plant resistance through abiotic stress. Moreover, various defense-related phytohormones, biological elicitors, non-organic elicitors, and volatile organic compounds have been shown to induce plant resistance. During …