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Sweet cherries are a speciality crop, subject to significant production risk for growers, yet with high potential returns due to strong consumer demand. This book covers the history, genetic improvements, production, physiology of growth and cropping, orchard establishment and management, and harvesting for sustainable cherry production.

This new book provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage on sustainable production processes for fresh market and canning peaches and nectarines, including orchard establishment, production, pests and diseases, postharvest handling and uses. This book includes fundamental information to help reduce production risks for growers, improve fruit quality, and increase potential market returns, while addressing current emerging issues such as climate change and shifting global and regional production practices. Written by an international team of expert authors and highly illustrated in full color throughout, Peach presents information in an organized and easy-to-follow manner, with content including: fruit quality, composition and nutritional benefits; production physiology of growth and cropping; orchard design and establishment, tree architecture, field management and harvesting; non-destructive peach fruit maturity and quality assessment; and postharvest physiology and technology, including supply chain management protocols and transportation.

Addresses both scientific and practical aspects of growing the common mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. It includes general aspects of mushroom cultivation, substrates properties, breeding, casing and cropping, pests and diseases, harvesting and postharvest technologies.

The cut flower and foliage industry is a global business with major production locations around the world. With a focus on production in protected cultivation, this book describes how to successfully grow and harvest high quality flowers.

This book is the first single author work to be published for more than thirty years that provides a broad, balanced review of our scientific knowledge of strawberries. This title covers aspects from taxonomy, ecology, morphology and genetics to environmental physiology, disease and pest control, fruit ripening, storage and processing.

Covers the biology and cultivation of citrus, considering the industry from an international perspective. This updated edition includes new findings of advances in molecular approaches to taxonomic studies, cultivars, physiological understanding of key citrus fruits and environmental factors affecting fruit quality.

This practical, full-colour book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the commercial production of blackberries and their hybrids. It covers growth and development, cultivar description and selection, propagation, pruning, soil and water management, postharvest management, economics, marketing, and pest identification and management.

This practical book provides an accessible overview of all aspects of pea and bean production, including botany and physiology, breeding, agronomy, weed management, pests and diseases, harvesting, nutritional value and uses. It includes the specialist knowledge needed to ensure food quality standards are met. Presented in full colour throughout.

The first book to provide a general introductory overview of the scientific principles underlying production of all three crops. This is a broad-based text for students of agriculture, horticulture and food science, as well as professionals seeking an overview of the topic.

This volume considers ornamental bulbs, including the related storage organs of corms and tubers. An immense amount of research literature has been distilled, such that general principles are stressed throughout, but common examples are considered in some detail.

This volume opens with a review of world production data, crop uses, botany, taxonomy and evolution. It then describes the genetics and breeding of the crop. Physiological aspects are then discussed. Production methods worldwide are reviewed, before consideration of harvesting and seeds, pests and diseases, and economics and marketing.

Written by one of America's foremost horticultural scientists and writers, the book is invaluable for plant producers or growers, as well as for students of ornamental or amenity horticulture.

This fully revised, expanded and updated edition relates the production and utilization of these familiar and important vegetable crops to the many aspects of plant science underpinning their production and storage technologies.

Taking a global perspective, this book provides a comprehensive yet concise reference for all horticulture students, raspberry growers, producers and fruit industry personnel looking for the latest information in raspberry production.

Fully updated with new content and full-colour figures, the second edition of this successful book reflects developments and growth in our knowledge of carrots and related crops. It covers the scientific basis of their biology and production, with updated technical crop management content.

Root and tuber crops are important to agriculture, food security and income for 2.2 billion people in developing countries. This is an update of this popular title in the Crop Production Science in Horticulture series, originally published in 2009.

Completely updated with new content and full-colour figures throughout, this new edition provides succinct and authoritative knowledge relating to the production of cucurbits, including cucumbers, gourds, muskmelons, pumpkins, squashes and watermelons, and reflects on significant recent advances in the areas of production, breeding and evolution.

This informative text thoroughly covers the influence of the environment on grapevine health and productivity, and informs the reader on how grapes are grown and factors affecting grape quality.

This new and updated edition covers major topics of interest to blueberry breeders and researchers: botany, physiology, nutrition, growth regulation, photosynthesis, environment, weeds, pests, diseases and postharvest management. The focus is on the highbush blueberry, though information on other blueberries and related species is also provided.

This new edition covers genetics and breeding, crop growth and yield, irrigation and fertilization, fruit ripening and quality, and postharvest biology and handling. Updated throughout and now in full colour, it also includes a new chapter on organic tomato production.

New material in this second edition includes an expansion of marker-assisted breeding to cover the different types of markers available, new directions and trends in the industry, the loss of germplasm and access to it, and the long term preservation of Capsicum resources worldwide.

The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Tropical Fruits is essential reading for students and teachers of horticulture as well as horticultural industry personnel and policy-makers.

Revised and updated with expanded coverage of world trade statistics and policies, breeding of new cultivars in relation to disease resistance and markets, prospects for genetically-modified bananas and the increasing role of endophytes in controlling pests and diseases, this new edition is an essential resource for researchers in horticulture.

Reviewing an extensive array of literature from both a theoretical and practical perspective, this comprehensive guide deals with all aspects of olive culture, from its history, origins and traditional techniques to the latest horticultural procedures and basic physiology.