The following Research Topics are led by experts in their field and contribute to the scientific understanding of food-science. These Research topics are published in a variety of our peer-reviewed journals, such as Frontiers in Nutrition and Frontiers in Plant Science, as open access articles.
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Utilizing Machine Learning with Phenotypic and Genotypic Data to enhance Effective Breeding in Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
Changing climate is driving frequent extreme weather events such as increased drought, and unpredictable seasonal precipitation, resulting in increased salinity, and shifts in pest pressures. Furthermore, changing climate has resulted in shifts in gr...
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Infection and Colonization of Horticultural Crops by Microbial Pathogens
Horticultural crops are an integral part of economic growth and they contribute significantly to agricultural production. Plants can be infected by pathogenic oomycetes, fungi and bacteria that cause significant yield losses worldwide and have a grea...
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Current Advances in Botrytis cinerea: Biology, Pathogenesis and Interaction with Host Plants
Better known to wine connoisseurs as the “noble rot”, Botrytis cinerea is indeed an important plant pathogen with a very diverse host range, causing gray mold disease in over 1000 plant species, including most vegetable and fruit crops, trees, and fl...
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Emerging Sustainable and Green Technologies for Improving Agricultural Production
Nowadays, the world is facing food shortages with the increasing global population, decreasing food sources, and deteriorating environment. Traditionally, several strategies have been employed to improve agricultural production, including physical me...
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Nanotechnology in the Food Sector: Advances and Challenges
The world’s population growth is expected to exceed 10 billion by 2050, which will require a 50% increase in the agro-food sector to maintain the global food supply chain. As a final product, food reaches consumers via a sequential process that invol...
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Enhancing Nutrient Profile, Safety, and Sustainability with Fermentation Technology
Fermentation is a metabolic process that improves the nutrition density of foods. It can convert food components to small molecules through enzymatic action. Historically, many foods have undergone fermentation, including meat, fish, dairy, vegetable...
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Databases and Nutrition, volume III
This Research Topic is dedicated to cover high-level aspects of “Databases and Nutrition” in a global and interdisciplinary perspective and interoperability as tools towards health. Studies that examine the relationship between diet and health have l...
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Interactions between Food Matrices and Flavor Compounds
The concentration of flavor substances in the environment is one of the most important factors determining human flavor perception, and the release process from food matrices determines its concentration. Therefore, the release of flavor from food ma...