Horticulturae Webinar | Use of Basic Substances and Potential Basic Substances to Control Potato Pathogens and Postharvest Diseases of Papaya and Sour Cherries

On Tuesday, 23 November 2021, MDPI and the Journal Horticulturae organized the third webinar on Horticulturae, entitled "Use of Basic Substances and Potencial Basic Substances to Control Porato Pathogens and Postharvest Diseases of Papaya and Sour Cherries".

The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Romanazzi from the Marche Polytechnic University. He coordinates several projects, including PRIMA StopMedWaste and Euphresco BasicS, and research activity focuses on alternatives to synthetic fungicides for pre and postharvest disease management.

The first speaker to quick off this webinar was Prof. Dr. Jolanta Kowalska. Jolanta Kowalska is the head of the Department of Organic Agriculture and Environmental Protection at the Institute of Plant Protection - National Research Institute in Poznań, Poland. She started the webinar's discussion with her talk on The Effect of Selected Basic Substances on Main Potato Pathogens.

The second presentation with the title "Antifungal Activity and Other Mechanisms of Action of Ruta graveolens Essential Oil" was held by Dr. Clemencia Chaves Lopez, an Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Teramo and member of the teaching body of the PhD course in Food Science at the same University.

The third and last presentation, entitled "Pre-postharvest Application of Chitosan Against Postharvest Decay of Sour Cherry" was held by Prof. Dr. Erzsébet Mónika Karaffa a full professor in Plant Protection, at the University of Debrecen. Her research and development area is aetiology, epidemiology, and control of fungal diseases of grapevine, sour cherry and walnut.

The presentations were followed by a Q&A, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Horticulturae, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on "Subscribe" at the top of the page.