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EDITORIAL article

Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Crop and Product Physiology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1522530
This article is part of the Research Topic Preharvest and Postharvest Factors affecting Fruit and Vegetables Quality, Physiology, and Shelf-Life View all 6 articles

Editorial: Preharvest and Postharvest Factors affecting Fruit and Vegetables Quality, Physiology, and Shelf-Life

Provisionally accepted
Viktorija Vaštakaitė-Kairienė Viktorija Vaštakaitė-Kairienė 1*Giorgia Liguori Giorgia Liguori 2Maryna De Wit Maryna De Wit 3
  • 1 Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Agriculture, Akademija, Lithuania
  • 2 Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
  • 3 Department of Sustainable Food Systems and Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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    Improving crop quality and shelf-life is crucial for a global horticultural food supply. 9Horticultural crops provide essential nutrients and bioactive compounds for food 10 functionalization. Understanding pack can improve the physicochemical attributes of broccoli heads, resulting in a maximum 25 marketable head yield of 28.02 t ha -1 . This method also ensures a shelf-life of more than 24 26 days at cold storage and 7 days at room temperature. The study recommends using these 27 methods for optimal broccoli yield and agro-ecological zones for further confirmation.

    Keywords: postharvest, Fruit, Vegetables, shelf-life, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), Food quality loss, Preharvest

    Received: 04 Nov 2024; Accepted: 14 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Vaštakaitė-Kairienė, Liguori and De Wit. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Viktorija Vaštakaitė-Kairienė, Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Agriculture, Akademija, Lithuania

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