"Strawberry: Pre- and Post-Harvest Management Techniques for Higher Fruit Quality" ed. by Toshiki Asao, Md Asaduzzaman

This book mainly deals with pre- and postharvest management practices of the strawberry to ensure that high-quality fruits are delivered to the consumer. This book focuses on the postharvest quality management of the strawberry and provides a useful resource to educationists, traders, and commercial strawberry growers.

The influence of climatic variables, cultural practices, harvesting techniques, and use of chemicals and other natural compounds on fruit quality are discussed. Factors affecting fruit growth and development and processes regarding maturation and biochemical changes during fruit ripening are also presented in one of the chapters of this book.
Some chapters provide information regarding harvesting, storing, packaging, transporting, and also selling that affect strawberry quality greatly. Enhancement of yield and antioxidant contents in the strawberry by various natural products, including chitosan and probiotic bacterial, are also included in this book. The final chapter states that antioxidants present in strawberry fruit play a dietary role in alleviating oxidative stress in experimental liver models.

1.The Effect of Preharvest Factors on Fruit and Nutritional Quality in Strawberry
2.Fruit Physiology and Postharvest Management of Strawberry
3.Physical, Chemical and Processing Postharvest Technologies in Strawberry
4.Postharvest Quality Management of Strawberries
5.Improving Yield and Antioxidant Properties of Strawberries by Utilizing Microbes and Natural Products
6.Management of Strawberry Insect and Mite Pests in Greenhouse and Field Crops
7.Dietary Antioxidants in Experimental Models of Liver Diseases
Contents
Preface