Temperate Tree Fruits and Nuts serves as a comprehensive resource, providing up-to-date knowledge about economically significant temperate fruit crops. This textbook covers the history, genetic improvements, and growth physiology of these crops. It details orchard establishment, management practices, and harvest considerations, making it a standalone guide to sustainable fruit crop production in temperate climates. Targeted toward undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as professionals in pomology, horticulture, and related fields, the book is essential for researchers, farmers, consultants, and agribusiness professionals.
Each chapter, authored by an expert, provides an introduction, botany, orchard management, propagation, rootstocks, cultivars, and disease and pest management. It also covers ripening, harvest criteria, postharvest physiology, and technology, complemented by high-quality illustrations and a question bank for instructors.
- Explains the history, genetic improvements, and production physiology of growth and cropping, orchard establishment, and harvest considerations for sustainable fruit crop management
- Highlights the status of each crop within a global context and provides information on fruit species from a range of both preharvest and postharvest perspectives
- Explores the main challenges and constraints for each temperate fruit crop, as well as preharvest factors and cultivation practices that effect yield efficiency
- Describes fungal/pest diseases and physiological disorders that compromise fruit quality on a species-specific basis
- Includes high-quality illustrations and question bank
George Manganaris is founder and Director of CUT Fruit Sciences & Posharvest Group (www.fruitsciences.eu) at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). His main scientific interests include the quality evaluation/phytochemical profile of horticultural products (fleshy fruits and grapes) with the employment of physiological, biochemical and molecular approaches, the elucidation of fruit ripening syndrome with emphasis in the development of physiological disorders and overall the postharvest maintenance of fresh produce. Additionally, he is involved in projects and/or synergies dealing with the application of preharvest treatments and/or novel technologies for maintaining quality of horticultural crops and their responsiveness to abiotic conditions. To date, Dr. Manganaris is the author of more than 100 contributions in refereed journals (4800 citations, h-index=34). Data from his work have also been presented in review papers (4), book chapters (16) and full texts in Conference proceedings (11). He is Council Member and elected Vice Chair at the Division Temperate Tree Fruits at ISHS. In the past he has organized three ISHS symposiums and has acted as editor of the Proceedings of the X ISHS Peach Symposium (Acta Horticulturae 1352), V International Postharvest Unlimited Symposium (Acta Horticulturae 1079) and the III International Horticulture in Europe Symposium (Acta Horticulturae 1242). He has been appointed by the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency of Higher Education to participate in the External Evaluation and Accreditations process of several Departments in Greece. He has been assigned to evaluate competitive research proposals for EU (Horizon 2020, Eurostars, Innowide) and from different countries (Italy, France, Belgium, Poland, Chile, Greece, Slovenia, Serbia, Israel, Latvia). He is Council Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science and is board member of European Fruit Research Institute Network.
