Peppers : botany, production and uses /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Peppers.; Peppers > Utilization.; Agricultural Economics.; Horticultural Economics, (New March 2000); Input Utilization (Microeconomics); Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Production.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Plant Propagation.; in vitro Culture of Plant Material.; Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Fertilizers and other Amendments.; Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002); Agricultural and Forestry Equipment (General); Crop Produce.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Capsicum.; Insects.; Chillies.; Crop establishment.; Cropping systems.; Crown.; Economic analysis.; Ethnobotany.; Fertilizers.; Harvesting.; In vitro culture.; In vitro regeneration.; Insect pests.; Irrigation.; Metabolites.; Micropropagation.; Organic farming.; Plant diseases.; Plant pathogens.; Plant pests.; Planting stock.; Postharvest treatment.; Protected cultivation.; Roots.; Salinity.; Salt tolerance.; Stress.; Stress response.; Taxonomy.; Tissue culture.; Transplanters.; Weed control.; Weeds.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book (19 chapters) on pepper (Capsicum spp.) provides an overview of current research on ethnobotany, taxonomy, genetics, greenhouse production, tissue culture, transplant production, transplanters used in pepper production, stand establishment, fertilizer application and irrigation management, cropping systems, salt tolerance, organic production, metabolites, weed control, crown and root diseases, insect pests, harvesting technology, postharvest requirements, and greenhouse production economics.