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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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,...

Table of Contents:

• Ethnobotany / Linda Perry
• The Taxonomy of the Genus Capsicum / W. Hardy Eshbaugh
• Genetics / John R. Stommel and Elena Albrecht
• Greenhouse Production / Wei-Chin Lin and Mikal Saltveit
• Tissue Culture of Capsicum Species / N. Santana-Buzzy, J.J. Bello-Bello, L. Iglesias-Andreu, J.J. Zúñiga Aguilar, A. Canto-Flick, S.A. Avilés-Viñas, C.A. Lecona-Guzmán, D. Solís-Marroquín, E. Gómez-Uc, E. Balam-Uc, G.F. Arcos-Ortega, and J.O. Mijangos-Cortés
• Transplant Production / Timothy L. Grey and Theodore M. Webster
• Transplanters for Use in Pepper Production / G.V. Prasanna Kumar and Hifjur Raheman
• Stand Establishment / Daniel I. Leskovar and Brian A. Kahn
• Pepper Fertilization and Irrigation Management / Bielinski M. Santos
• Cropping Systems for Field Production / Brian A. Kahn and Daniel I. Leskovar
• Salt Tolerance in Pepper (Capsicum spp.) / Genhua Niu
• Organic Pepper Production / Monica Ozores-Hampton, Pamela Roberts and Philip A. Stansly
• Physiology of Metabolites / Amy Frary and Anne Frary
• Weed Control / Charles L. Webber III
• Crown and Root Diseases of Pepper / Cheng-Hua Huang and Gary E. Vallad
• Pepper Insects and their Control / Gerald M. Ghidiu and Thomas P. Kuhar
• Pepper Harvest Technology / Paul A. Funk and Dale E. Marshall
• Postharvest Requirements of Peppers / María Isabel Gil and Juan Antonio Tudela
• Greenhouse Pepper Production Economics / G. Nabi Chaudhary and Mohyuddin Mirza.