Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding Domestication to Cultivar Development - Hardcover

S. N. Ghosh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9384337153 ISBN 13: 9789384337155

Publisher: Narendra Publishing

Synopsis

Crop improvement and varietal wealth in terms of science and technology have undergone momentous transformations in recent years in some fruit crops like apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, almonds, and walnuts. Still many others remain neglected particularly the quince, kiwi fruit, persimmon, olive, chestnut, pecan nut, pistachio nut, hazel nut etc. The temperate fruit breeding is marred by several bottlenecks like long juvenility, cross pollination, high heterogeneity, large size and self-incompatibility. Still temperate fruit breeding has resulted in the production of number of hybrids and local selections which is a very important step in the production of local varieties in view of the restriction in the exchange of new varieties from several countries due to plant variety protection acts. This book is intended to be brief compilation of the information available on the crop improvement and varietal wealth in relation to temperate fruit and nut crops. The goal is to provide the overviews on the evolution of each crop, the history of domestication, taxonomy, centre of diversity and different species, crop improvement objectives, genetics/inheritance pattern, the breeding methods employed, problems in breeding, floral biology, pollination management, salient accomplishment and varietal wealth, and future thrust.

About this edition

• Publisher: Narendra Publishing
• ISBN 10: 9384337153
• ISBN 13: 9789384337155
• Binding: Hardcover