PART I STRESS PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IN HORTICULTURAL PLANTS -- 1 Effect of Salt Stress on the Growth and Fruit Quality of Tomato Plants -- 2 Ethylene, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Temperature in Postharvest Physiology -- 3 Role of Polyamines in Stress Response in Horticultural Crops -- 4 Effect of Temperature on Fruit Color Development -- 5 Polyol Metabolism and Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Plants -- PART II EFFECTS OF ABIOTIC STRESS ON HORTICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION AND STORAGE -- 6 Influence of Drought and High Temperature on Citrus -- 7 Fruit Set and Temperature Stress -- 8 Postharvest Chlorophyll Degradation and Oxidative Stress -- PART III STRESS BIOLOGY IN PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS -- 9 Blossom-End Rot in Fruit Vegetables -- 10 Watercore in Fruits -- 11 Water Uptake Through the Surface of Fleshy Soft Fruit: Barriers, Mechanism, Factors, and Potential Role in Cracking -- PART IV GENETIC ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES AND OMICS IN STRESS TOLERANCE -- 12 Promoters for Transgenic Horticultural Plants -- 13 mRNA Translational Enhancers as a Tool for Plant Gene Engineering -- 14 RNA-Seq Data Analysis for Studying Abiotic Stress in Horticultural Plants.