Major losses of fresh horticultural produce transpire during postharvest storage due to
prompt senescence and diseases. The traditional postharvest preservation techniques used …

Vegetable crops benefit from seed priming technology by their low volume and high value.
Early sowing of vegetables under suboptimal environments is practised often to fetch better …

Plants need to cope with changing environmental conditions, be it variable light or
temperature, different availability of water or nutrients, or attack by pathogens or insects …

The goal of the present study was to estimate the distribution and migration of eleven
systemic and non-systemic pesticides between the skin and the pulp of apples. Additionally …

The effects of hot air (HA) pretreatment on quality, phenolic accumulation and antioxidant
activity of fresh-cut pitaya fruit were investigated. It was found that 42° C HA pretreatment for …

Seed priming has long been explored as an effective value-added potential technique that
results in improved germination, reduced seedling emergence time, shortened crop …

Gray mold is a main disease of strawberry fruit (Fragaria× xananassa cv. Camino Real)
caused by Botrytis cinerea, which leads to marketable value losses in the supply chain. The …

Biological control of postharvest fruit diseases by antagonistic microorganisms is considered
an effective alternative to chemical fungicides. The influence of microbial antagonists on the …

This study aimed to investigate the antibacterial efficiency and synergistic mechanisms of
novel formulated eugenol–casein–lysozyme nanoparticles (ECL-NPs) against gram-positive …

Fungal infections significantly alter the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by
plants, but the mechanisms for VOCs affecting fungal infections of plants remain largely …