Effect of ozone application during cold storage of kiwifruit on the development of stem-end rot caused by Botrytis cinerea. Postharvest Biology & Technology 2010, 53, 203-210. (Minas IS, Karaoglanidis GS, Manganaris GA, Vasilakakis M. )

Postharvest fruit rots of apple caused by fungal pathogens in Greece: Pathogen incidence and relationships between fruit quality parameters, cultivar susceptibility and patulin production. 2011. Plant Disease, 95, 666-672. (Konstantinou S, Karaoglanidis GS, Bardas GA, Minas IS, Doukas E, Markoglou AN)

Physiological and proteomic approaches to address the active role of ozone in kiwifruit postharvest ripening. 2012. Journal Experimental Botany, 63, 2449-2464. (Minas IS, Tanou G, Belghazi M, Job D, Manganaris GA, Molassiotis A, Vasilakakis M.)

Sulfur dioxide alone or in combination with CO2-enriched atmosphere extends the market life of highbush blueberry fruit. 2012. Postharvest Biology & Technology, 67, 84-91. (Cantín CM, Minas IS, Goulas V, Jiménez M, Manganaris GA, Michailides TJ, Crisosto CH)

Postharvest handling of plums (Prunus salicina Lindl.) at 10oC to save energy and preserve fruit quality using an innovative application system of 1-MCP. 2013. Postharvest Biology & Technology, 76, 1-9. (Minas IS, Crisosto GM, Holcroft, D, Vasilakakis M, Crisosto CH)

Cell wall modifications and ethylene-induced tolerance to non-chilling peel pitting in citrus fruit. 2013. Plant Science, 210, 46-52. (Vicente AR, Manganaris GA, Minas IS, Goulas V, Lafuente MT)

Developing a new 1-MCP postharvest application to save energy during postharvest handling for plums (Prunus salicina Lindl.). 2013. Acta Horticulturae, 985, 257-259. (Minas IS, Crisosto GM, Day KR, Crisosto CH.)

Phytochemical content, antioxidants and cell wall metabolism of two loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) cultivars under different storage regimes. 2014. Food chemistry 155, 227-234. (Goulas V, Minas IS, Kourdoulas, PM, Vicente AR, Manganaris GA)

Ozone-induced kiwifruit ripening delay is mediated by ethylene biosynthesis inhibition and cell wall dismantling regulation. 2014. Plant Science 229, 76-85 (Minas IS*, Vicente AR, Dhanapal AP, Manganaris GA, Goulas V, Vasilakakis M, Crisosto CH, Molassiotis A)

Discovery of non-climacteric and suppressed climacteric bud sport mutations originating from a climacteric plum cultivar (Prunus salicina Lindl.). 2015. Frontiers in Plant Science 6, 316. (Minas IS, Font i Forcada C, Dangl GS, Gradziel TM, Dandekar AM, Crisosto CH)

The impact of sodium nitroprusside and ozone in kiwifruit ripening physiology: a combined gene and protein expression profiling approach. 2015. Annals of Botany 116, 649-662. (Tanou G, Minas IS, Karagiannis E, Daniela Tsikou, Stéphane Audebert, Papadopoulou K, Molassiotis A)

1H NMR metabolic fingerprinting to probe temporal postharvest changes on qualitative attributes and phytochemical profile of sweet cherry fruit. 2015. Frontiers in Plant Science 6, 959. (Goulas V, Minas IS, Kourdoulas PK, Lazaridou A, Molassiotis A, Gerothanassis IP, Manganaris GA)

Coupling of physiological and proteomic analysis to understand the ethylene- and chilling-induced kiwifruit ripening syndrome. 2016.  Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 120. (Minas IS, Tanou G, Karagiannis E, Belghazi M, Molassiotis A)

Comparative physiological and proteomic analysis reveal distinct regulation of peach skin quality traits by altitude. 2016. Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 1689. (Karagiannis E, Tanou G, Samiotaki M, Michailidis M, Diamantidis Gr., Minas IS, Molassiotis A)

Budagovsky, Geneva, Pillnitz, and Malling apple rootstocks affect ‘Honeycrisp’ performance over the first five years of the 2010 NC-140 Honeycrisp Apple Rootstock Trial. 2017. Journal of the American Pomological Society 71, 149-166. (Autio W, Robinson T, Black B, Blatt S, Cochran D, Cowgill W, Hampson C, Hoover E, Lang G, Miller D, Minas I, Parra Quezada R, Stasiak M)

Exploring priming responses involved in peach fruit acclimation to cold stress. 2017. Scientific Reports 7, 11358. (Tanou G, Minas IS, Scossa F, Belghazi M, Xanthopoulou A, Ganopoulos I, Madesis P, Fernie A, Molassiotis A)

Environmental and orchard bases of peach fruit quality. 2018. Invited Review article for the Special Issue: Quality and Safety of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Scientia Horticulturae, 325, 307-322. (Minas IS*, Tanou G, Molassiotis A)

Postharvest cold responses of sweet cherry fruit and stem tissues revealed by metabolomic profiling. 2018 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 127, 478-484. (Karagiannis E, Michailidis M, Karamanoli K, Lazaridou A, Minas IS, Molassiotis A)

Rootstock performance in the 2009 NC-140 peach trial across 11 states 2018. Acta Horticulturae 1228, 181-186. (Reighard GL, Bridges W, Archbold D, Atucha A, Autio W, Beckman T., Black B, Chavez D, Coneva E, Day K, Kushad M, Johnson RS, Lindstrom T, Lordan J, Minas IS, Ouellette D, Parker ML Pokharel, R, Robinson TL, Schupp J, Warmund M, Wolfe D)

Ozone-induced kiwifruit ripening inhibition is amplified by 1-methylcyclopropene and reversed by exogenous ethylene.  BMC Plant Biology 18, 358. (Minas IS*, Tanou G, Krokida A, Karagiannis E, Belghazi M, Vasilakakis M, Papadopoulou KK, Molassiotis A)

Preventive Fungicidal Control of Cytospora leucostoma in Peach Orchards in Colorado  Plant Disease 103, 1138-1147. (Miller ST, Otto KL, Sterle D, Minas IS, Stewart JE. 2019)

Nine-Year Rootstock Performance of the NC-140 ‘Redhaven’ Peach Trial across 13 States. Journal of the American Pomological Society, in press. (Reighard GL, Bridges WJr, Archbold D., Atucha A, Autio W, Beckman T, Black B, Chavez DJ, Coneva E, Day K, Francescatto P, Kushad M, Johnson RS, Lindstrom T, Lordan Sanahuja J, Minas IS, Ouellette D, Parker M, Pokharel R, Robinson T, Schupp J, Warmund M. Wolfe D. 2020)

Soil sterilization leads to re-colonization of a healthier rhizosphere microbiome Rhizosphere 12, 100176 (Li K, DiLegge M, Minas IS, Hamm A, Manter D, Vivanco J. 2019)