The avocado : botany, production and uses /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Avocado.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Plant Propagation.; 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); Persea americana.; Avocados.; Biotechnology.; Botany.; Cultivars.; Cultivation.; Fruits.; Genetics.; Growth.; Harvesting.; Packing.; Pest control.; Plant breeding.; Plant development.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant ecology.; Plant nutrition.; Plant pests.; Postharvest treatment.; Rootstocks.; Storage.; Taxonomy.; Transport.; Vegetative propagation.; Electronic books.
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This multiauthor book consists of 14 sections covering all aspects of avocado production and science, including the uses, taxonomy, botany, genetics, breeding, ecology, growth and development, propagation, cultivars and rootstocks, cultivation, nutrition, biotechnology, pests and diseases (and their...

Table of Contents:

• History, Distribution and Uses / R.J. Knight, Jr
• Taxonomy and Botany / R.W. Scora, B.N. Wolstenholme and U. Lavi
• Genetics and Classical Breeding / E. Lahav and U. Lavi
• Ecology : Climate and the Edaphic Environment / B.N. Wolstenholme
• Reproductive Biology / S. Gazit and C. Degani
• Environmental Physiology / B. Schaffer and A.W. Whiley
• Cultivars and Rootstocks / S.D.E. Newett, J.H. Crane and C.F. Balerdi
• Propagation / G.S. Bender and A.W. Whiley
• Biotechnology / F. Pliego-Alfaro, Witjaksono, A. Barceló-Muñoz, R.E. Litz and U. Lavi
• Crop Management / A.W. Whiley
• Irrigation and Mineral Nutrition / E. Lahav and A.W. Whiley
• Foliar, Fruit and Soilborne Diseases / K.G. Pegg, L.M. Coates, L. Korsten and R.M. Harding
• Insect and Mite Pests / G.K. Waite and R. Martinez Barrera
• Harvesting, Packing, Postharvest Technology, Transport and Processing / P.J. Hofman, Y. Fuchs and D.L. Milne.