Allium crop science : recent advances /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Allium.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Production.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Crop Produce.; Food Storage and Preservation.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Allium ascalonicum.; Allium cepa.; Allium cepa var. aggregatum.; Allium porrum.; Allium sativum.; Agronomy.; Crop production.; Cultivation.; Domestication.; Evolution.; Flavour compounds.; Garlic.; Genetic transformation.; Leeks.; Medicinal plants.; Onions.; Organic sulfur compounds.; Ornamental value.; Plant breeding.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Postharvest systems.; Shallots.; Storage.; Taxonomy.; Tropics.; Electronic books.
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This multiauthor book contains 19 sections discussing the evolution and taxonomy, genetic diversity, domestication, genetic transformation, breeding, agronomy, pre- and postharvest treatments, storage, diseases, pests, onion cultivation in the tropics (including country reports), sulfur compounds an...

Table of Contents:

• Evolution, domestication and taxonomy / R.M. Fritsch and N. Friesen
• Florogenesis / R. Kamenetsky and H.D. Rabinowitch
• Genome organization in allium / M.J. Havey
• Exploitation of wild relatives for the breeding of cultivated allium species / C. Kik
• Diversity, fertility and seed production of garlic / T. Etoh and P.W. Simon
• Genetic transformation of onions / C.C. Eady
• Doubled-haploid onions / B. Bohanec
• Molecular markers in allium / M. Klaas and N. Friesen
• Agronomy of onions / A.-D. Bosch Serra and L. Currah
• Onion pre- and postharvest considerations / I.R. Gubb and H.S. MacTavish
• Bacterial diseases of onion / G.L. Mark, R.D. Gitaitis and J.W. Lorbeer
• Monitoring and forecasting for disease and insect attack in onions and allium crops within IPM strategies / J.W. Lorbeer, T.P. Kuhar and M.P. Hoffmann
• Virus diseases in garlic and the propagation of virus-free plants / R. Salomon
• Sulphur compounds in alliums in relation to flavour quality / W.M. Randle and J.E. Lancaster
• Health and alliums / M. Keusgen
• Onions in the Tropics : cultivars and country reports / L. Currah
• Shallot (Allium cepa, Aggregatum Group) / H.D. Rabinowitch and R. Kamenetsky
• Leek : advances in agronomy and breeding / H. De Clercq and E. Van Bockstaele
• Ornamental alliums / R. Kamenetsky and R.M. Fritsch.