Horticulture: Basic Principles and Recent Approaches

Contents: 1. Horticulture: Importance and Scope/Pranava Pandey. 2. Novel Approaches for Sustainable Development of Horticulture/Sanjeev Kumar, Alka Singh, T.R. Ahlawat, Shailendra K. Dwivedi and Dushyant D. Champaneri. 3. Horticultural and Botanical Classification of Plants/Pranava Pandey. 4. Seed Dormancy and Germination/Hetal Rathod, A.K. Pandey, Mital Dudhat and Madineni Tejaswini. 5. Nursery Management/S.K. Acharya, R.K. Jat, Mukesh Kumar and Dhara J. Barot. 6. Plant Propagation/Pranava Pandey and A.K. Pandey. 7. Establishment of An Orchard/Pranava Pandey. 8. Training and Pruning/Pranava Pandey and A.K. Pandey. 9. High Density Plantation/R.K. Jat, M.L. Jat, S.K. Acharya and Mukesh Kumar. 10. Water Management in Horticultural Crops/Amit Kumar and Jagdeesh P. Rathore. 11. Fertilizer Application in Horticultural Crops/Pranava Pandey. 12. Juvenility and Flower Bud Differentiation/Pranava Pandey. 13. Unfruitfulness/Pranava Pandey. 14. Post Harvest Management of Horticultural Crops/Shailendra K. Dwivedi, A.K. Pandey, Ankit Pandey and Vivek Tiwari. 15. Maturity Indices of Fruits and Vegetables/Pranava Pandey. 16. Precision Farming and Protected Cultivation Concepts and Analysis/Sanjeev Kumar, A.K. Pandey, Hetal Rathod, Dushyant D. Champaneri and S.N. Saravaiya. 17. Insect Pest Management in Fruit Crops/Snehal M. Patel, H.V. Pandya, V.P. Prajapati, P.R. Patel and Hemant Sharma. 18. Disease Management in Fruit Crops/V.P. Prajapati, P.R. Patel, Hemant Sharma, H.V. Pandya and Snehal M. Patel. The book entitled Horticulture: Basic Principles and Recent Approaches is meant for students, teachers, research scholars as well as budding horticulturists. This book covers most of the areas of horticulture ranging from traditional to recent development The emphasis has not only been laid on definitions and technical terms, but also on the concepts and their applications. Special care has been taken so that the rigour of science is not lost while simplifying the language.…