Tropical fruits. Volume 1 /

• Main Authors: Paull, Robert E., (Author), Duarte, Odilo, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Series: Crop production science in horticulture ; 20.
• Subjects: Tropical fruit.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Morphology and Structure.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Plant Propagation.; In vitro Culture of Plant Material.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Crop Produce.; Food Storage and Preservation.; Food Composition and Quality.; Plant Ecology.; Taxonomy and Evolution.; Climatic factors.; Crop production.; Crop quality.; Cultivars.; Fruit crops.; Fruits.; Pest control.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant disorders.; Plant ecology.; Plant morphology.; Plant pests.; Plant physiology.; Postharvest treatment.; Propagation.; Taxonomy.; Weed control.; Weeds.; Electronic books.
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This book is one of the 23 volumes in the Crop Production Science in Horticulture Series focusing on horticultural crops from major production systems in temperate, subtropical and tropical climatic areas. The first volume on tropical fruits presented the general aspects of tropical fruit production...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Tropics, Its Soils and Horticulture
• Cultivation
• Tree Management
• Postharvest Technology
• Annonas: Cherimoya, Atemoya and Sweetsop
• Avocado
• Banana and Plantain
• Litchi and Longan
• Mango
• Papaya
• Pineapple.