The Peach: Botany, Production and UsesDesmond R. Layne, Daniele Bassi The Peach provides a comprehensive up to date reference work, summarizing our knowledge of peaches and their production worldwide and includes an extensive colour plates section. Chapters written by international authorities address botany and taxonomy, breeding and genetics of cultivars and rootstocks, propagation, physiology and planting systems, crop and pest management and postharvest physiology. The book also includes a contribution on the history of cultivation and production trends in China with historical references dating back to 1100 B.C for the first time in the English language. |
Contents
1 Botany and Taxonomy | 1 |
2 History of Cultivation and Trends in China | 37 |
3 Classical Genetics and Breeding | 61 |
4 Genetic Engineering and Genomics | 85 |
5 Lowchill Cultivar Development | 106 |
6 Fresh Market Cultivar Development | 139 |
Colour plates 173 | 144 |
7 Processing Peach Cultivar Development | 175 |
14 Orchard Floor Management Systems | 332 |
Colour plates 74163 | 336 |
Biology Epidemiology and Management | 352 |
16 Diseases Caused by Prokaryotes Bacteria and Phytoplasmas | 407 |
17 Viruses and Viroids of Peach Trees | 435 |
18 Insects and Mites | 467 |
Colour plates 164245 | 496 |
19 Nematodes | 505 |
8 Rootstock Development | 193 |
9 Propagation Techniques | 221 |
10 Carbon Assimilation Partitioning and Budget Modelling | 244 |
11 Orchard Planting Systems | 264 |
12 Crop Load Management | 289 |
13 Nutrient and Water Requirements of Peach Trees | 303 |
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22 Harvesting and Postharvest Handling of Peaches for the Fresh Market | 575 |
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