Fungal diseases result in significant losses of fruits and vegetables during handling,
transportation and storage. At present, post-production fungal spoilage is predominantly …

The predominance of partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) used to analyze
metabolomics datasets (indeed, it is the most well-known tool to perform classification and …

More than one third of harvested fruit and vegetables are lost and do not reach the
customers mainly due to postharvest decay. During the last decade, several postharvest …

Ultra-violet (UV) and blue radiations are perceived by plants through several
photoreceptors. They regulate a large range of processes throughout plant life. Along with …

Precise allocation of limited resources between growth and defense is critical for plant
survival. In shade-intolerant species, perception of competition signals by informational …

Plants inhabit environments crowded with infectious microbes that pose constant threats to
their survival. Necrotrophic pathogens are notorious for their aggressive and wide-ranging …

Insidious fungal infections by postharvest pathogens remain quiescent during fruit growth
until, at a particular phase during fruit ripening and senescence, the pathogens switch to the …

Background Resistance in plants to pathogen attack can be qualitative or quantitative. For
the latter, hundreds of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified, but the mechanisms …

Plant diseases, caused by microbes, threaten world food, feed, and bioproduct security.
Plant resistance has not been effectively deployed to improve resistance in plants for lack of …

Light is emerging as a central regulator of plant immune responses against herbivores and
pathogens. Solar UV-B radiation plays an important role as a positive modulator of plant …