ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on biotechnological approach to improve the nutritional quality and shelf life of vegetables as a part of post-harvest management. Metabolic-engineered biotechnological approaches can target internal processes, but they are not restricted to endogenous genes. In favourable and unfavourable climatic conditions, vegetable fruits ripening and softening is the major cause which contributes towards the perishability of vegetable fruit crops. The government has thought much more in emphasizing manner to adopt to meet the gap between demand and production. The fruits of knowledge can be availed if there are the total devolution by all stakeholders regarding increased. A number of challenges, such as increase in population, water scarcity, changing global climate, high post-harvest decays and short shelf life of vegetables, need to be addressed by help of biotechnological applications in the vegetable production. All stakeholders regarding increased and sustained funding, increase agricultural R&D and less cost and time for registration and commercialization of new traits.
