Handbook of environmental physiology of fruit crops. Volume 1. Temperate crops.

Type of monograph: Guide/Handbook

Summary

This volume looks at the effects of different environmental factors on crops. All the commercially important crops are covered and the temperate regions of the world, in which they grow, are described. The environmental factors studied include irradiation, temperature, water and salinity. Each chapter focuses on a single crop or group of genetically related crops, and subsections discuss individual environmental factors. Extract from the table of contents: introduction; apple, blueberry, raspberry, and cranberry, grape, kiwifruit, olive, pear and quince, persimmon, stone fruit, strawberry, temperate nut species.

Details

Original title: Handbook of environmental physiology of fruit crops. Volume 1. Temperate crops.
Record ID : 1996-2639
Languages: English
Subject: Environment
Publication: CRC Press - United kingdom/United kingdom
Publication date: 1994/10
Source: Source: 390 p. (18.2 x 26); fig.; tabl.; index; append.; GBP 95.00.
Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

Indexing

Themes: Irradiation and other preservation processes;
Fruit;
Seeds and plants
Keywords: Strawberry; Raspberry; Persimmon; Nut; Edible berry; Blueberry; Blackberry; Deterioration; Chilling; Grape; Apple; Pear; Weight loss; Olive; Chilling injury; Ethylene; Environment; Kiwifruit; Ionizing irradiation; Freezing; Fruit