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Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species

Shri Mohan Jain, P.M. Priyadarshan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

299 Seiten

2008 | 2009 ed.
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-71202-4 (ISBN)

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Tree species are indispensable to human needs. Due to their long life cycle and environmental sensitivity, breeding trees for sustainable production is a formidable challenge in order to meet the demands of growing human population and industries. Fruit crops such as apple, cocoa, mango, citrus, litchi, pear, dates, and coconut or industrial crops including rubber and tea, improving yield under the optimal, sub-optimal and marginal areas call for a unified worldwide effort. While the uniqueness of coconut as ‘kalpavriksha’ (Sanskrit - meaning tree of life) makes its presence in every continent from Far East to South America, tree crops such as cocoa, oil palm, rubber, apple, peach and walnut prove their environmental sensitivity towards tropical, subtropical and temperate climates. Date palm is quintessential for desert climate. Thus, from soft drinks to breweries to oil to tires, the value addition offers a spectrum of products to human kind, enriched with nutritional, environmental, financial, and trade related attributes.

This volume is a compilation of information on breeding of temperate tree species and provides first hand comprehensive knowledge to research, teach, and make policies.

Almond (Prunus dulcis) Breeding.- Breeding Apple (Malus x Domestica Borkh).- Apricot Breeding.- Citrus Breeding.- Pear Breeding.- Plum Breeding.- Raspberry Breeding.- Breeding Walnuts (Juglans Regia).

Zusatzinfo	X, 299 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-387-71202-X / 038771202X
ISBN-13	978-0-387-71202-4 / 9780387712024
Zustand	Neuware