The mango : botany, production and uses /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Mango.; Agricultural Economics.; Horticultural Economics, (New March 2000); International Trade.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Nutrition.; Plant Production.; Plant Propagation.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Plant Disorders and Injuries (Not caused directly by Organisms); Other Control Measures.; Crop Produce.; Food Processing (General); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Mangifera indica.; Biotechnology.; Crop husbandry.; Crop management.; Cultivars.; Descriptors.; Fruits.; Genetic improvement.; Mangoes.; Plant diseases.; Plant disorders.; Plant nutrition.; Plant pathogens.; Plant pests.; Postharvest physiology.; Postharvest systems.; Processing.; Production economics.; Propagation.; Quarantine.; Reproduction.; Taxonomy.; Trade.; Electronic books.
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This book on mango covers the following: botany and importance (chapter 1); taxonomy and systematics (chapter 2); important mango cultivars and their descriptors (chapter 3); breeding and genetics (chapter 4); reproductive physiology (chapter 5); ecophysiology (chapter 6); fruit diseases (chapter 7)...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : botany and importance / S.K. Mukherjee and R.E. Litz
• Taxonomy and systematics / J.M. Bompard
• Important mango cultivars and their descriptors / R.J. Knight, Jr., R.J. Campbell and I. Maguire
• Breeding and genetics / C.P.A. Iyer and R.J. Schnell
• Reproductive physiology / T.L. Davenport
• Ecophysiology / B. Schaffer, L. Urban, P. Lu and A.W. Whiley
• Fruit diseases / D. Prusky, I. Kobiler, I. Miyara and N. Alkan
• Foliar, floral and soilborne diseases / R.C. Ploetz and S. Freeman
• Physiological disorders / V. Galán Saúco
• Pests / J. E. Peña, M. Aluja and M. Wysoki
• Crop production : propagation / S. Ram and R.E. Litz
• Crop production : mineral nutrition / I.S.E. Bally
• Crop production : management / J.H. Crane, S. Salazar-García, T.-S. Lin, A.C. de Queiroz Pinto and Z.-H. Shü
• Postharvest physiology / J.K. Brecht and E.M. Yahia
• Postharvest technology and quarantine treatments / G.I. Johnson and P.J. Hofman
• World mango trade and the economics of mango production / E.A. Evans and O.J. Mendoza
• Fruit processing / L.C. Raymundo, M.T. Ombico and T.M. de Villa
• Biotechnology / R.E. Litz, M.A. Gómez-Lim and U. Lavi.