The pineapple : botany, production and uses /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
• Subjects: Pineapple.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Meteorology and Climate.; Biological Resources (Plant); Crop Produce.; Food Processing (General); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Ananas comosus.; Botany.; Flowering.; Fruiting.; Genetic engineering.; Geographical distribution.; History.; Pineapples.; Plant breeding.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Postharvest physiology.; Processing.; Production.; Propagation.; Storage.; Weeds.; Electronic books.
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This book, intended for researchers, professional horticulturists and tropical fruit growers, covers the history, distribution and world production; botany; breeding, genetic engineering, selection and cultivars; crop environment viz., temperature, water and light; propagation, cultural systems; flo...

Table of Contents:

• History, Distribution and World Production / Kenneth G. Rohrbach, Freddy Leal and Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge
• Morphology, Anatomy and Taxonomy / Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge and Freddy Leal
• Breeding and Variety Improvement / Y.K. Chan, G. Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge and G.M. Sanewski
• Biotechnology / M.K. Smith, H.-L. Ko, S.D. Hamill, G.M. Sanewski and M.W. Graham
• Crop Environment, Plant Growth and Physiology / Eric Malézieux, Francois Côte and Duane P. Bartholomew
• Cultural System / Anthony Hepton
• Plant Nutrition / Eric Malézieux and Duane P. Bartholomew
• Inflorescence and Fruit Development and Yield / Duane P. Bartholomew, Eric Malézieux, Garth M. Sanewski and Eric Sinclair
• Pests, Diseases and Weeds / Kenneth G. Rohrbach and Marshall W. Johnson
• Postharvest Physiology, Handling and Storage of Pineapple / Robert E. Paull and Ching-Cheng Chen
• Processing / Anthony Hepton and Aurora Saulo Hodgson.