Special issue 'Improving Quality of Fruit' is now open for submissions. The aim is to explore a variety of agricultural practices, preharvest foliar applications, harvest processes, and postharvest handling and storage related to fruit quality. 

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2021.

Fruits are necessary in a balanced diet and consumed for their vitamins, fibers, and other beneficial compounds. The most appealing characteristics of fruits are the sensory traits such as flavor, texture, aroma, color and additionally, several bioactive phytochemicals. Therefore, a better understanding of fruit ripening mechanism is required to improve their quality. Fruits are classified into climacteric and non-climacteric. At climacteric fruits belongs among others the apples, pears, kiwifruits, peaches, etc. In this type of fruits, it is observed a respiration burst during ripening and it is accelerated by ethylene production. At non-climacteric fruits belong sweet cherries, strawberries, citrus species etc. that the respiration remains stable or declines during ripening. At both types of ripening, fruit quality can be affected in various ways during on-tree development and postharvest period.