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9789383305513: Fruit Breeding
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ISBN 10: 9383305517 ISBN 13: 9789383305513
Editorial: NIPA, 2015

Sinopsis

Fruit Breeding is an art and science demanding prolonged time, space and intrinsic qualities. Seed propagation leads to heterogeneity and asexual propagation of elite clones' leads to newer and novel types. There are temperate, sub-tropical and tropical fruits differing in photo and thermo periodic requirements. There are also parthenocarpic and apomictic fruit trees demanding special breeding methods for improvement. Aroma, taste and flavor are unique to fruits unlike other horticultural crops like vegetables, spices, plantation crops and tubers. The book unravels history of fruit breeding, biodiversity, challenges approaches and prospects, apomixes, mutation breeding, role of insects in fruit production, molecular markers, statistical techniques, rootstock breeding, breeding of mango, citrus, banana, papaya, guava, sapota, jackfruit, sugarapple/sweetsop Indian jujube and jamun. The 20 chapters in the book authored by 15 scientists from six Research Institutes and Universities expose readers to a new world of fruit breeding, very seldom ventured by breeders.

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Acerca del autor

M. R. Dinesh: Principal Scientist, Division of Fruit Crops, Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR), Hessaraghatta Lake Post, Bangalore-560 089, Karnataka, India.

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Editorial
NIPA
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9383305517
ISBN 13 
9789383305513
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
Editor
Dinesh M. R., Peter K.V.
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