TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nadia Bertin
AU  - Maarten Hertog
AU  - Michel Génard
AB  - Besides increasing crop yield to feed the growing population, improving crop quality is a challenging and key issue. Indeed, quality determines consumer acceptability and increases the attractivity of fresh and processed products. In this respect, fruit and vegetables, which represent a main source of vitamins and other health compounds, play a major role in human diet. This is the case in developing countries where populations are prone to nutritional deficiencies, but this is also a pending issue worldwide, where the growing middle class is increasingly aware and in search of healthy food. So a future challenge for the global horticultural industry will be to answer the demand for better quality food in a changing environment, where many resources will be limited. This e-collection collates state-of-the-art research on the quality of horticultural crops, covering the underlying physiological processes, the genetic and environmental controls during plant and organ development and the postharvest evolution of quality during storage and processing.
DO  - 10.3389/978-2-88945-597-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 31996
KW  - pre- and post-harvest
KW  - modeling
KW  - ripening
KW  - fruit
KW  - taste
KW  - grafting
KW  - horticultural crops
KW  - vegetable
KW  - health value
KW  - aroma
KW  - quality
L1  - https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4752/quality-of-horticultural-crops-a-recurrentnew-challenge-for-plant-scientists-in-a-changing-world
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57418
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9782889455973
TI  - Quality of Horticultural Crops: A Recurrent/New Challenge for Plant Scientists in a Changing Worldnull
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