Vegetable seed production /

• Main Author: George, Raymond A. T., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Edition: 3rd edition.
• Subjects: Vegetables > Seeds.; Food crops > Seeds.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Production.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Plant Propagation.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Plants.; Genetic transformation.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Organic farming.; Planting stock.; Seed production.; Seeds.; Transgenic plants.; Vegetables.; Vegetative propagation.; Electronic books.
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This third edition includes summaries at salient points within the first six chapters, dealing with the principles and practice of vegetable seed production. A suggested further reading list is provided at the conclusion of each of the 16 chapters. The general updating of this third edition has incl...

Table of Contents:

• Organization
• Principles of seed production
• Agronomy
• Harvesting and processing
• Storage
• Seed handling, quality control and distribution
• Chenopodiaceae
• Asteraceae (formerly Compositae)
• Cruciferae
• Cucurbitaceae
• Leguminosae
• Solanaceae
• Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae)
• Alliaceae
• Gramineae
• Amaranthaceae and Malvaceae.