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Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is a highly nutritious fruit valued for its rich content of vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals, particularly calcium, which plays a crucial role in its physiological processes. Calcium influences several aspects of kiwifruit growth, quality, and shelf-life, yet the optimal strategies to manipulate its levels remain under exploration. This paper reviews agronomic strategies aimed at increasing kiwifruit calcium content, including soil amendments, foliar applications, rootstock selection, and the use of controlled environments. Through a detailed analysis of these strategies, we aim to better understand the relationship between calcium content and fruit physiology, including its impact on fruit firmness, ripening, and resistance to physiological disorders. The findings suggest that while calcium plays a key role in kiwifruit quality, effective agronomic interventions are essential for optimizing its levels and improving overall fruit production. Future research in this area will provide valuable insights for advancing sustainable and high-quality kiwifruit production. Keywords: Kiwifruit, calcium content, agronomic strategies, soil amendments, foliar applications, rootstock selection, calcium uptake, fruit quality, fruit physiology, calcium fertilization, postharvest quality, irrigation management, controlled environments, calcium-related disorders, kiwifruit production, sustainable agriculture, nutrient management, fruit firmness, shelf-life extension, plant nutrition, agricultural practices. agronomic strategies to optimize calcium uptake and Introduction: Kiwifruit is a climacteric fruit that has distribution in kiwifruit vines. This review examines gained global popularity due to its unique flavor, current strategies for increasing calcium content in texture, and health benefits. Among its nutritional kiwifruit, including soil fertilization techniques, foliar attributes, calcium is a key mineral that influences calcium applications, rootstock selection, and various physiological processes in the plant, including environmental management. By enhancing our cell wall structure, enzyme activity, and membrane understanding of how these practices influence stability. Calcium also contributes significantly to fruit calcium uptake and fruit quality, we aim to contribute quality by affecting the firmness, ripening, and to more sustainable and efficient kiwifruit production. storability of kiwifruit. However, despite its importance, the mechanisms by which calcium Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is a widely cultivated fruit influences kiwifruit physiology remain complex and not known for its unique taste, vibrant green color, and fully understood. impressive nutritional profile, which includes high amounts of vitamin C, dietary fiber, and essential Agronomic practices can play a pivotal role in minerals. Among these minerals, calcium plays a manipulating the calcium content in kiwifruit. Given the particularly significant role in determining the fruit’s challenges in achieving consistent calcium levels, quality, firmness, and storage capabilities. While researchers and farmers have turned to a variety of calcium is vital to the overall health of the kiwifruit American Journal Of Agriculture And Horticulture Innovations 1 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajahi American Journal Of Agriculture And Horticulture Innovations (ISSN: 2771-2559) plant and its fruit development, the mechanisms by and fruit quality, the paper seeks to provide insights which it influences fruit physiology and its optimal into how these strategies can be optimized to improve levels in the fruit remain complex and somewhat poorly kiwifruit production. Understanding the intricacies of understood. calcium’s role in kiwifruit will ultimately support sustainable farming practices and help growers Calcium is essential for plant cell function, especially in produce high-quality fruit with improved shelf life, processes such as cell wall stability, membrane reducing postharvest losses and maximizing market function, and signaling mechanisms involved in stress value. response. In kiwifruit, calcium is particularly important during the fruit ripening process, as it contributes to METHODS the structural integrity of cell walls, influencing fruit This review paper draws upon existing research and texture and firmness. A higher calcium content in the case studies from various scientific publications, fruit is typically associated with better postharvest including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference quality, including reduced susceptibility to proceedings, and agricultural reports. Sources were physiological disorders such as internal breakdown, identified through academic databases such as Google softening, and blossom-end rot, which can diminish Scholar, JSTOR, and ScienceDirect. The selected marketability and shelf-life. Furthermore, adequate literature primarily focuses on the effects of calcium on calcium levels can he