Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Species in Post-Harvest Physiology of Horticultural Crops

1st Edition - November 1, 2023
Editors: Vasileios Ziogas, Francisco J. Corpas
Language: English
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Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Species in Post-harvest Physiology of Horticultural Crops, a volume in the Plant Gasotransmitter series, analyzes the latest advances in post-harvest physiology. The book presents metabolic cascades and highlights the role of gasotransmitters as intercellular regulators of metabolic processes. Post-harvest physiology differs between climacteric and non-climacteric fruits and vegetables, as well as for fresh-cut flowers and non-food plants. Initial chapters review the cascades, intercellular pathways and messenger molecules that drive ripeness and longevity, presenting the chemistry behind key pathways. The books also takes a deep dive into core gasotransmitters, describing the data behind known properties, chemistry and physiological roles.

Applications for prolonging shelf-life via the control of post-harvest fungi, bacteria and omics approaches are reviewed in detail, offering readers guidance on how to put gasotransmitters research into practice. This is an essential resource for students, researchers and agronomists interested in plant physiology, biochemistry and plant hormones.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
About the editors
1. Postharvest physiology of climacteric and nonclimacteric fruits and vegetables
1. Introduction
2. Ripening metabolism of climacteric and nonclimacteric fruits and vegetables
3. Climacteric and nonclimacteric fruits and vegetables: The role of ethylene at the ripening syndrome
4. Technological inputs in postharvest management
5. Biotechnological tools in postharvest physiology
6. Conclusion
2. Postharvest physiology of fresh-cut flowers
1. Introduction
2. Water metabolism
3. Changes in respiration rate
4. Characteristics of cell membrane
5. Postharvest pigment changes
6. Postharvest carbohydrate level changes
7. Postharvest antioxidant system changes
8. Conclusions and outlook
3. Reactive oxygen species (ROS): Chemistry and role in plant physiology
1. Introduction
2. Reactive oxygen species: The biochemistry of ROS
3. ROS processing systems
4. ROS in plant cell homeostasis and signaling
5. ROS under stress conditions
6. Conclusions
4. Chemical biology of reactive nitrogen species (RNS) and its application in postharvest horticultural crops
1. The sources and the categories of RNS
2. Chemical properties of RNS
3. Endogenous NO generation and homeostasis
4. The metabolic pathways modulated by NO in plants
5. Roles of NO in regulating the postharvest horticultural crops
6. Conclusion and prospection
5. Reactive sulfur species—A novel group of gasotransmitters
1. Introduction
2. The property of reactive sulfur species
3. The generation of reactive sulfur species
4. Physiological roles of RSS in plant
5. Molecular mechanism of RSS in signaling
6. Conclusions and perspectives
6. Compartmentalization in the production of ROS and RNS in horticultural crops
1. Introduction
2. Compartmentalization of ROS production in horticultural plants
3. Compartmentalization of NO production in horticultural plants
4. Conclusions and future perspectives
7. Assessment of the subcellular generation of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in fleshy fruits: Tomato and pepper
1. Overview of hydrogen sulfide in higher plant
2. Biochemical outline of H2S in plant cells: protein persulfidation
3. Tomato and pepper, horticultural crops belonging to the Solanaceae family
4. Exogenous application of H2S to fruits and vegetables
5. Conclusions and future perspectives
8. Exogenous postharvest application of ROS for prolonging the shelf-life of horticultural crops
1. Introduction
2. Hydrogen peroxide and ozone properties
3. Mode of action in postharvest physiology
4. Application of hydrogen peroxide for prolonging the shelf-life and quality of agricultural produce
5. Application of ozone for prolonging the shelf-life and quality of agricultural produce
6. Conclusion and future perspectives
9. Exogenous application of RNS for prolonging the shelf-life of horticultural crops
1. Introduction
2. NO biosynthesis and bioactivity
3. Mechanisms underlying molecular functions of nitric oxide on horticultural crop
4. NO regulates the responses of horticultural crops to biotic stress
5. Conclusions and perspectives
10. Exogenous application of RSS for prolonging the shelf-life of horticultural crops
1. Introduction
2. Biosynthesis and regulation of H2S in plants
3. H2S application on fruit and vegetables
4. Role of H2S in prolonging shelf-life of fruit and vegetables
5. Fruit ripening and quality preserving
6. Delaying in fruit softening
7. Enhancement of antioxidant metabolism by scavenging of reactive oxygen species
8. Antimicrobial properties
9. Anti-browning activity
10. Chilling injury tolerance
11. Challenges and future perspectives
12. Conclusions
11. Reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species cellular crosstalk
1. Introduction
2. Biosynthesis of reactive species in plant cells
3. Reactive species and cellular redox status
4. Crosstalk between reactive species
5. Crosstalk of reactive species under reductive stress
6. Crosstalk of reactive species and induction of antioxidant metabolism
7. Interplay of reactive species via exogenous addition
8. Crosstalk of reactive species and glutathione production
9. Reactive species interplay and fruit ripening
10. Conclusion
12. Melatonin interplay with reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species during ripening and postharvest storage of agricultural produce
1. Introduction
2. Roles of endogenous MLT in postharvest products
3. Application of exogenous MLT for the preservation of agricultural produce
4. Conclusions
13. Molecular hydrogen as a beneficial postharvest treatment
1. Introduction
2. The application of H2 as a postharvest treatment
3. Evidence of H2 having beneficial postharvest effects
4. H2 and seed germination
5. Molecular action of H2
6. Future perspectives and conclusions
14. ROS, RNS, and RSS to extend shelf-life of horticultural crops by controlling postharvest fungi
1. Introduction
2. Phytopathogenic fungi
3. Antifungal mechanisms of ROS, RNS, RSS
4. Beneficial impact of the application of ROS, RNS, and RSS as a preventive method to minimize postharvest spoilage due to fungi
5. Conclusion
6. Future perspective
15. Application of ROS, RNS, and RSS for prolonging the shelf-life of horticultural crops via the control of postharvest bacterial infections
1. Introduction
2. Factors affecting shelf-life of horticultural crops
3. Genotypes/cultivars
4. Harvest maturity
5. Storage temperature
6. Postharvest diseases–related infections
7. Factors affecting vase life of cut flowers
8. Factors affecting microbial safety of fruits and vegetables
9. Horticultural crops and associated bacterial pathogens
10. Contamination routes of fresh horticultural crops with bacterial pathogens
11. Preharvest contamination of fresh horticultural produce with bacterial pathogens
12. Contamination of horticultural produce with bacterial infections during harvesting
13. Contamination of horticultural crops with bacterial infections during postharvest handling and processing
14. Bacterial pathogen infections on fruits and vegetables during postharvest storage
15. Postharvest shelf-life extension and quality management of horticultural crops with ROS applications
16. Impact of H2O2 on postharvest bacterial diseases and shelf-life of horticultural crops
17. Safety status of H2O2 for horticultural crops
18. Impact of ozone on postharvest bacterial diseases and shelf-life of horticultural crops
19. Reactive nitrogen species
20. Impact of NO on postharvest bacterial diseases and shelf-life of horticultural crops
21. Reactive sulfur species
22. Impact of H2S on postharvest bacterial diseases and shelf-life of horticultural crops
23. Conclusion
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Vasileios Ziogas

Francisco J. Corpas