The Science of Horticulture Vol. I

Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgement I General horticulture science 1 Geographical indications and TRIPS Agreement Latha R Nair 2 Principles of Hi Tech horticulture Patil AA Mantur SM Biradar MS and Mannikeri IM 3 Science behind tracer studies in horticulture SC Kotur 4 Principles of Germplasm conservation SD Doijode 5 Advances in research on male sterility RK Dhall 6 The polyembryony the basics Kundan Kishore 7 Principles of food irradiation PC Tripathi 8 History of plant pathology of horticultural crops Veena Ashok Vegetable science 9 History of plant breeding with emphasis on vegetables Peter KV and Pradeep Kumar T 10 Basics in vegetable seed technology Kanwar JS and Geetha Bassi 11 Use of plant growth promoting Rhizobacteria PGPR in vegetable crops Sadhan Kumar PG and Nirmala Devi S III Horticulture biotechnology 12 Methodology for gene sequencing in plants Jayalakshmy VG 13 Molecular tools for characterization of horticultural crops Behera TK and Sabina Islam 14 Transgenic ornamentals with reduced ethylene production and perception Shigeru Satoh Yusuke Kosugi and Takako Narumi 15 Tuber crops biotechnology Sheela MN and Rajmohan K IV Fruit science 16 Viticulture in the Napa Valley a farmers perspective Richard Mendelson and Robert Steinhauer From the Preface The Science of Horticulture exposes all the stake holders students scientists extension officers farmers policy planners to recent scientific research findings in horticulture Marketing of horticulture produces has assumed prime importance in a global market with establishment of World Trade Organisation WTO Many trade related agreements were signed among over 110 countries The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS Agreement specifically represents the resolve of al member countries to use intellectual property as one of the means of achieving economic balance and diminishing the trade barriers The legislative history elaborates the genesis of TRIPS agreement General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT Madrid Agreement Chairmans draft Dunkel draft general protection under article 22 and certain aspects of TRIPS definition Malabar Pepper Alleppy Green Cardamom Assam Tea Darjeeling Tea Nilgiri Tea and Coorge Orange are a few horticultural crops which got registered under Gi appellation The chapter I is contributed by Latha S Nair Intellectual Property Firm Gurgaon 406 pp.…