Journal of Horticultural Science and Crop Research

Prof.Dr. Franciszek Adamicki is currently working as a rector at the College of Economic and Humanities in Skierniewice and at the same time is a lecturer at the Department of Horticulture at this College. Previously was working at the Institute of Vegetable Crop 1967-2010, and then in the Research Institute of Horticulturae as a director in the years 2011-2015. Dr. Franciszek Adamicki awarded his PhD in Horticulture: Study of controlled atmosphere on the storage, quality and biological value of onions at Agricultural University of Warsaw (SGGW) from 1980 and M.S. degree in Horticultural Sciences at University of  Warmia & Mazury, Kortowo Olsztyn, Poland from 1971.

Dr. Franciszek active member in various scientific societies like Research Council of the Research Institute of Horticulture, Member of Working Group of Modified & Controlled Atmosphere Storage International Society for Horticultural Sciences. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Horticultural Research and also serves as a chair of organising committees of national and domestic conferences. Dr. Franciszek works as an author and co-author of over 500 publications including 69 peer-reviewed, 12 scientific books and chapters in academic manuals. 

 Postharvest physiology, storage methods of different kind of vegetable crops, including controlled and modified atmosphere storage as well as the use of 1-MCP and ethylene in vegetable storage.