In recent decades, significant international assistance has been provided to assist the establishment of market information systems (MISs) in a range of developing countries, including many in Africa. However, experience with state-run MISs, looking to provide current price information to market participants, has not been encouraging. Volatile horticultural markets provide particular challenges...

Drought stress is one of the main factors limiting horticultural crops, especially in environments such as Mediterranean basin, which often characterized by sub-optimal water availability [...]

Vitamin C, including ascorbic acid and dehydroascorbic acid, is one of the most important nutritional quality factors in many horticultural crops and has many biological activities in the human body. The content of vitamin C in fruits and vegetables can be influenced by various factors such as genotypic differences, preharvest climatic conditions and cultural practices, maturity and harvesting ...

Background: Due to its highly perishable nature and less shelf life, postharvest losses of fruits result in a high gap between production availability. Various plant traits which need be genetically modified for higher life include lowered respiration ethylene production, sensitivity ethylene, lowering ripening rates, reduced browning, decreased chilling increased disease resistance. Methods: T...

Enzymatic browning is a colour reaction occurring in plants, including cereals, fruit and horticultural crops, due to oxidation during postharvest processing and storage. This has a negative impact on the colour, flavour, nutritional properties and shelf life of food products. Browning is usually caused by polyphenol oxidases (PPOs), following cell damage caused by senescence, wounding and the ...