ISHS Acta Horticulturae 398: Postharvest Physiology of Fruits
PREFACE |
| Authors: | H. Hyodo, Alley E. Watada |
| Abstract:
This volume of Acta Horticulturae is based mainly on the papers presented at the symposium "Postharvest Physiology of Fruits" and from oral and poster sessions of Postharvest Physiology and Technology which were held at the XXIVth International Horticultural Congress (IHC) on 21–27 August, 1994 in Kyoto, Japan. The symposium was organized by H. Hyodo and A.E. Watada. There were five papers in this symposium presented by S. Lurie, I.B. Ferguson, A.A. Kader, S. Yamaki and S.F. Yang. Finally A.E. Watada concluded the symposium. In this symposium, regulation of physiology of fruit and fruit ripening was reviewed and discussed from the basis of various aspects of recent research and studies. Those are high temperature treatments, calcium treatments, controlled/modified atmospheres, sugar metabolism and accumulation, and ethylene biosynthesis and its role. The relevant and recent topics were selected from the oral and poster presentations in the sessions of Postharvest Physiology and Technology of tree fruits and vegetable fruits which were incorporated in this volume. Postharvest physiology deals with fruit ripening, vegetable senescence, flower senescence, physiological disorder, stress injury and postharvest disease of horticultural crops.
These horticultural crops undergo rapid changes in metabolism after harvest.
It is important to study these processes at the cellular level to determine how the biochemical reactions of each of these processes are induced and regulated.
Recent advances in molecular biology will be useful and promising in exploring further these processes.
Studies on postharvest biology and technology have made a great contribution to the improvement of postharvest handling and preservation of good quality of horticultural crops during transport and storage.
The editors believe and really hope that present papers published in this volume of Acta Horticulturae will contribute to the development of studies in postharvest physiology of fruits in future. | |
