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Propagation and Post-harvest of Fruit Crops

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology".

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Dr. Sergio Ruffo Roberto

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Department of Agronomy, Agricultural Research Center, Londrina State University, Celso Garcia Cid Road, Londrina P.O. Box 10.011, Brazil
Interests: horticulture; fruit crops; post-harvest; fruit ripening
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Dear Colleagues,

In fruit crops, plant propagation plays an important role as the number of plants can be rapidly multiplied, retaining desirable characteristics from the mother plants, and shortening the bearing age of plants. Depending on the fruit species, propagation can be achieved sexually by seed or asexually by utilizing specialized vegetative structures of the plant or by employing such techniques as cutting, layering, grafting, and tissue culture.

Sexual propagation entails the recombination of genetic material. In nature, this results in progenies that differ from each other and from their parents. Vegetative propagation is clonal; progenies are genetic copies of the parent plant, and are widely used in several fruit species, allowing the production of high-quality nursery trees with the same genetic characteristics of the mother plant, free of diseases or pests.

Whatever the form of propagation used, the profitability of a new orchard depends on the quality of the nursery plants, as uniform ripening and good fruit quality must be achieved.

When the fruits reach the fully ripe stage, one of the major concerns is to keep them fresh and healthy for a long period of time. However, all fruits are living biological organisms with a respiratory system, and they continue their living processes after harvest. Harvested fruits require adequate and advanced post-harvest processing technologies for minimizing the qualitative as well as quantitative losses. Nearly 40% of fruits are wasted every year due to improper handling, storage, packaging, and transportation. The   objective   of   post-harvest   handling   is,   therefore,   the   creation   of  an   understanding of all the operations concerned from harvesting to distribution so as to enable people to apply the proper technology in each step and to minimize  losses  and  keep  quality  as  high  as  possible  throughout  the  distribution  chain.

The purpose of this Special Issue “Propagation and Post-Harvest of Fruit Crops” aims to present state-of-the-art techniques recently developed by researchers worldwide. Innovative articles on the propagation and post-harvest of any fruit species are welcome in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Sergio Ruffo Roberto
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Horticulturae is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • fruit propagation
  • temperate, tropical and subtropical fruits
  • nursery
  • seeds
  • cuttings
  • budding
  • grafting
  • greenhouse
  • post-harvest
  • packing house
  • cold chamber
  • plant growth regulators

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Propagation and Postharvest of Fruit Crops
by Ronan Carlos Colombo and Sergio Ruffo Roberto
Horticulturae 2022, 8(3), 246; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/horticulturae8030246 - 14 Mar 2022
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In fruit crops, plant propagation plays an important role as it allows the number of plants produced to be rapidly multiplied while retaining desirable characteristics from the mother plants and shortening the bearing age of plants [...] Full article
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Propagation of an Epigenetic Age-Related Disorder in Almond Is Governed by Vegetative Bud Ontogeny Rather Than Chimera-Type Cell Lineage
by Thomas M. Gradziel and Kenneth A. Shackel
Horticulturae 2021, 7(7), 190; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/horticulturae7070190 - 13 Jul 2021
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Almond (Prunus dulcis [Mill.] D.A. Webb) represents a model system for the study of epigenetic age-related disorders in perennial plants because the economically important noninfectious bud-failure disorder is well characterized and shown to be associated with the clonal-age of the propagation source. [...] Read more.
Almond (Prunus dulcis [Mill.] D.A. Webb) represents a model system for the study of epigenetic age-related disorders in perennial plants because the economically important noninfectious bud-failure disorder is well characterized and shown to be associated with the clonal-age of the propagation source. Epigenetic changes regulating disorders such as changes in methylation or telomere-length shortening would be expected to occur in shoot apical meristem initial cells since subsequent daughter cells including those in ensuing shoot axillary meristems show an irreversible advance in epigenetic aging. Because multiple initial cells are involved in meristem development and growth, such ‘mutations’ would be expected to occur in some initial cells but not others, resulting in mericlinal or sectorial chimeras during subsequent shoot development that, in turn, would differentially affect vegetative buds present in the leaf axils of the shoot. To test this developmental pattern, 2180 trees propagated from axillary buds of known position within asymptomatic noninfectious bud-failure budstick sources were evaluated for the disorder. Results demonstrate that relative bud position was not a determinant of successful trait propagation, but rather all axillary buds within individual shoots showed very similar degrees of noninfectious bud-failure. Control is thus more analogous to tissue-wide imprinting rather than being restricted to discrete cell lineages as would be predicted by standard meristem cell fate-mapping. Full article
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Synergistic Effect of Preharvest Spray Application of Natural Elicitors on Storage Life and Bioactive Compounds of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L., cv. Khesab)
by Zienab F. R. Ahmed, Shamsa S. N. A. Alblooshi, Navjot Kaur, Sajid Maqsood and Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann
Horticulturae 2021, 7(6), 145; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/horticulturae7060145 - 10 Jun 2021
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Despite the immense capabilities of the date palm, maintaining the fruit’s quality, marketability, and shelf life is still a challenge. This study aimed to assess the synergistic effect of a preharvest spray application of a natural elicitor chitosan, (Ch) 1% alone and in [...] Read more.
Despite the immense capabilities of the date palm, maintaining the fruit’s quality, marketability, and shelf life is still a challenge. This study aimed to assess the synergistic effect of a preharvest spray application of a natural elicitor chitosan, (Ch) 1% alone and in combination with salicylic acid (SA) 2 mM and calcium chloride (Ca) 3%; (Ch,SA, Ca,Ch+Ca, Ch+SA, Ch+SA+Ca), on the quality parameters, storage life, and bioactive compounds content of date fruit from ‘Khasab’ cultivar during cold storage for 60 days. The obtained results revealed that all treatments significantly retard senescence/decay of the fruit compared to the control. Ch+SA treated fruit followed by Ch, and Ch+SA+Ca had the lowest weight loss, color change, and the least decay after 60 days of storage. Ch+Ca, SA, Ca treated fruit had significantly lower levels of total soluble solids and highest total phenolic, tannins, and flavonoids contents compared to the control fruit. Antioxidant activities were found in all treatments, with significantly higher effect in Ch+SA+Ca and Ch+SA compared to the control. Our results provide an evidence for a synergistic effect of elicitors combination to extend the shelf life of date fruit during cold storage by preserving its quality and decreasing senescence/decay and recommend it as a promising strategy. Full article
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Postharvest Fumigation of Fresh Citrus with Cylinderized Phosphine to Control Bean Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
by Spencer S. Walse and Leonel R. Jimenez
Horticulturae 2021, 7(6), 134; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/horticulturae7060134 - 05 Jun 2021
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Bean thrips (BT), Caliothrips fasciatus (Pergande), is a pest of concern to certain countries that import fresh citrus fruit from California, USA. A series of laboratory-scale exploratory fumigations with phosphine at 4.9 ± 0.3 °C (mean ± 2 SD; [...] Read more.
Bean thrips (BT), Caliothrips fasciatus (Pergande), is a pest of concern to certain countries that import fresh citrus fruit from California, USA. A series of laboratory-scale exploratory fumigations with phosphine at 4.9 ± 0.3 °C (mean ± 2 SD; x¯±2s) were conducted to evaluate the postharvest control of adult BT. Models of the duration–mortality response predicted ca. 99% mortality of BT populations when headspace concentrations of phosphine, [PH3], are maintained at levels ≥0.4 g m−3 (250 ppmv (µL L−1)) and ≤1.5 g m−3 (1000 ppmv (µL L−1)) for 12 h, with the duration representing the lower bound of the 95% confidence level (CL). Confirmatory fumigations, each lasting 12 h, were then conducted using BT-infested sweet oranges, Citrus sinensis (L.), at pulp temperature (T) ≤ 5 °C to corroborate the exploratory results. Three formulations of cylinderized phosphine were used: 1.6% phosphine by volume in nitrogen, VAPORPH3OS®, and ECOFUME®, all applied at two levels, ca. 1.5 g m−3 (1000 ppmv (µL L−1)), as well as 0.5 g m−3 (300 ppmv (µL L−1)). Collectively, across the formulations, an applied dose of ca. 1.5 g m−3 (1000 ppmv (µL L−1)) resulted in 0 survivors from 38,993 (probit 8.60, 95% CL; probit 9, 72% CL) treated BT, while an applied dose of 0.5 g m−3 (300 ppmv (µL L−1)) resulted in 0 survivors from 31,204 (probit 8.56, 95% CL; probit 9, 70% CL) treated BT. Results were discussed in the context of commercial and operational features of quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) uses of phosphine to treat fresh fruit and, specifically, the control of BT in fresh citrus exported from California, USA, to Australia. Full article
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Effect of Phytosanitary Irradiation Treatment on the Storage Life of ‘Jiro’ Persimmons at 15 °C
by John B. Golding, Penta Pristijono and Baogang Wang
Horticulturae 2020, 6(4), 92; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/horticulturae6040092 - 26 Nov 2020
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Irradiation is becoming a more accepted phytosanitary market access treatment for some international horticultural trades. However, there is little information on the effects of phytosanitary irradiation treatment on persimmon fruit quality. ‘Jiro’ persimmon fruit were treated with an average of 769 Gray (Gy) [...] Read more.
Irradiation is becoming a more accepted phytosanitary market access treatment for some international horticultural trades. However, there is little information on the effects of phytosanitary irradiation treatment on persimmon fruit quality. ‘Jiro’ persimmon fruit were treated with an average of 769 Gray (Gy) at a commercial phytosanitary irradiation X-ray facility to examine the effect of this market access treatment on fruit quality during storage. After treatment, fruit were stored in air at 15 °C for up to three weeks. The results showed that, in general, there was no effect of irradiation treatment on fruit weight loss, calyx appearance, fruit firmness (objective and subjective), total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), internal appearance, and ethylene production rate. There were some treatment differences in fruit respiration rates and some aspects of fruit appearance and colour, where irradiated fruit had higher respiration rates and were slightly darker with higher levels of skin blemish, although these measured differences were not commercially significant. This study showed the promise of using low dose irradiation as a phytosanitary treatment for ‘Jiro’ persimmons, but more work is required to test other persimmon cultivars and other storage and marketing environments. Full article
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