The Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Hortícolas wishes to share the recognition grant ed by the Departamento para la Indexación de Revistas Científicas Colombianas Espe cializadas - Publindex (Colciencias) in Announcement 830 of 2018, placing the journal in category B. This significant achievement is indicative of the quality of the journal's articles, written by different research centers, universities, and companies that provide quality content to the journal.

Therefore, we are pleased to present to our readers the first issue of 2019, completely in English, with a digital structure that allows us to individually publish the articles and replace pagination as a citation element. However, a print version will be kept for a legal record and administrative matters, but this version will not be distributed to libraries or interested parties.

This issue contains a Fruit section that includes research on nitrogen fertilization in bananas and melons, anacardial propagation, pesticide residues in strawberry fruits and ripening applications in peach fruits.

The Vegetable section contains a varied selection of topics on inducers such as a study on resistance to Melodoidogyne incognita with silicon dioxide in tomatoes, the applica tion of ascorbic acid for saline stress in radishes and the use of potassium silitate as a water stress elicitor in sweet corn. In terms of management, this sections also deals with applications of boron and calcium in tomato hybrids, improving SSF preparation with carrot and potato crop residues, and the evaluation of the herbicide flumioxazine in onions.

The Section on aromatic, medicinal and spice plants presents studies on the influence of climate on the quality of olives and olive oil produced in the tropics, as well as am monia fertilization and types of light on the production of essential oils in Lippia alba.

This issue closes with a Scientific note on the asexual propagation of the monkey pep per, a promising shrub for the production of compounds.

These articles deal with issues involving edible species that are of general interest, ad dressing basic research and technical studies in horticultural production. Our intent is to increase discussion on the problems found in the various challenges of agricultural production.

Furthermore, we want to remind our authors to adapt the contents of their articles in accordance with the rules of publication since there are no resources or qualified personnel available to make extra adjustments. Similarly, it is mandatory that a cover image, editable graphics, research evidence, ORCID and standardized citations for au thors be sent. Failure to comply with these requirements will be cause for manuscript rejection.