Olives /
This book of 'olives' is the result of many years' endeavours in collecting valuable information from the existing literature concerning the olive tree and its culture; a proportion of this information, and experience, has originated from scientific projects of the author and his scie...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI,
2009.
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| Series: | Crop production science in horticulture ;
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- History of olive growing
- The olive : origin and classification
- Morphology and taxonomy of the olive
- Structure and composition of the olive fruit
- Hectarareage, number of trees and production of olive oil and table olives
- Rootstocks
- Major trends in olive farming systems
- Climatic and soil conditions
- Flower bud induction and differentiation
- Flowering, pollination, fertilization and fruiting
- Alternate bearing
- Fruit thinning
- Systems of planting and canopy training
- Propagation of olive trees
- Irrigation of the olive
- Water use efficiency by the olive
- Stress-induced accumulation of proline and mannitol
- Mineral nutrition of the olive
- Growth and salt tolerance of the olive
- Pruning
- Olive ripening
- Olive fruit harvesting
- Olive varieties
- Table olives
- Olive oil
- Olive mill products and environmental impact of olive oil production
- Oleuropein, olive leaf extract, olive oil and the benefits of the Mediterranean diet to human health
- Biological and integrated olive culture
- Chemical and integrated weed management in olive orchards
- Pests and diseases
- Biotechnological aspects of olive culture.