Apples : botany, production, and uses /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
• Subjects: Apples.; Apples > United States.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Nutrition.; Plant Water Relations.; Plant Production.; Plant Propagation.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Plant Disorders and Injuries (Not caused directly by Organisms); Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Fertilizers and other Amendments.; Soil Management.; Crop Produce.; Food Processing (General); Food Storage and Preservation.; Storage Problems and Pests of Food.; Food Composition and Quality.; Malus.; Malus pumila.; Crop establishment.; Crop production.; Cultivars.; Economics.; Endogenous growth regulators.; Flowering.; Frost protection.; Fruiting.; Fruits.; Genetics.; Handling.; Harvesting.; International trade.; Light relations.; Maturity.; Orchards.; Organic farming.; Pest control.; Plant breeding.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant disorders.; Plant growth regulators.; Plant nutrition.; Plant pests.; Plant protection.; Plant training.; Plant water relations.; Planting.; Planting stock.; Pollination.; Postharvest decay.; Processing quality.; Propagation.; Pruning.; Ripening.; Rootstock scion relationships.; Rootstocks.; Site factors.; Soil management.; Storage.; Storage disorders.; Taxonomy.; Temperature.; Thinning.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 660 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book, with contributions from 40 scientists from 8 countries, summarizes the current research information on apples and their culture, and will be of value to horticultural students, research and extension workers, and professional fruit growers. The 24 chapters are presented in 6 parts. Part I, the introductory section, considers taxonomy, and world production and trade. Parts II-VI cover the following aspects: Plant materials (breeding and genetics, cultivars, rootstocks, and propagation and planting stock); Apple physiology and environmental influences (flowering and fruiting, water relations, light relations and temperature); Orchard and tree management (site selection and orchard establishment, nutritional requirements, orchard floor management, pruning and training, planting systems, thinning and the vegetative:fruiting balance, and endogenous growth regulators and growth regulator application); Crop protection (diseases, ecology and pest management, frost protection, integrated fruit production and organic production); and Harvesting, handling and utilization (fruit maturity and ripening, harvesting and handling, storage, physiological and pathological disorders, and production and handling techniques for processing apples).