Grapes /

• Main Authors: Creasy, G. L. (Author), Creasy, Leroy L., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Series: Crop production science in horticulture ; 16.
• Subjects: Grape industry.; Grapes.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Production.; Vitidaceae.; Vitis.; Vitis vinifera.; Crop production.; Horticultural crops.; Horticulture.; Temperate climate.; Tropical climate.; Viticulture.; Electronic books.
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This series examines economically important horticultural crops selected from the major production systems in temperate, subtropical and tropical climatic areas. Systems represented range from open field and plantation sites to protected plastic and glasshouses, growing rooms and laboratories. Empha...

Table of Contents:

• History, uses and production
• Cultivars, anatomy and improvement
• Grapevine growth and fruit development
• Climatic requirements
• Vineyard establishment
• Seasonal management
• Nutrition
• Mechanization
• Grapevine pests, diseases and disorders
• Harvest and postharvest processing.