Flower seeds : biology and technology /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Flowers > Seeds.; Seeds.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Morphology and Structure.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Biological Resources (Plant); Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Storage Problems and Pests of Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Composition and Quality of Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Plants.; Bedding plants.; Breeding programmes.; Cleaning.; Dormancy breaking.; Flowers.; Germplasm.; Ornamental plants.; Seed anatomy.; Seed dormancy.; Seed germination.; Seed industry.; Seed morphology.; Seed production.; Seed testing.; Viability.; Vigour.; Wild flowers.; Electronic books.
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This book is arranged in 3 sections. The first section (Chapters 2-4) provides an introduction to the flower seed industry and identifies the users of flower seeds. These chapters provide a historical treatment of the industry and emphasize the challenges and opportunities for the ornamental and bed...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Flower Seeds and the Flower Seed Industry / Miller B. McDonald and Francis Y. Kwong
• History of the Flower Seed Industry / Nona Koivula
• Ornamental Bedding Plant Industry and Plug Production / Debbie Hamrick
• The Uses and Potential of Wildflower Seed in Landscaping / Gene P. Milstein
• Breeding Flower Seed Crops / Neil O. Anderson
• Factors Affecting Flowering in Ornamental Plants / John Erwin
• Seed Development and Structure in Floral Crops / Deborah J. Lionakis Meyer
• Flower Seed Physiology and Plug Germination / Miller B. McDonald
• Seed Dormancy in Wild Flowers / Carol C. Baskin and Jerry M. Baskin
• Flower Seed Longevity and Deterioration / Miller B. McDonald
• Flower Seed Production / Francis Y. Kwong
• Flower Seed Cleaning and Grading / Francis Y. Kwong, Ruth L. Sellman, Henk Jalink and Rob van der Schoor
• Flower Seed Priming, Pregermination, Pelleting and Coating / G. Tonko Bruggink
• Laboratory Germination Testing of Flower Seed / Marian Stephenson and Jolan Mari
• Tetrazolium Testing for Flower Seeds / Annette Miller
• Vigour Testing in Flower Seeds / Robert L. Geneve
• Conserving Herbaceous Ornamental Plant Germplasm / David Tay
• Conclusions / Francis Y. Kwong and Miller B. McDonald.