Peach
eBook - ePub

Peach

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Peach

About this book

Peach is a highly valuable temperate fruit crop with significant consumer demand and nutraceutical benefits. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage on sustainable production processes for peach and nectarine. The latter is a natural mutation of peach that lacks fuzzy skin. It includes fundamental information to help reduce production risks for growers, improve fruit quality, and increase potential market returns, whilst addressing current emerging issues such as climate change and shifting global and regional production practices.Written by an international team of expert authors and highly illustrated in full colour throughout, Peach presents information in an organized and easy-to-follow manner, with content including: Peach tree architecture.Rootstocks.Cultivars.In-field operations (irrigation, fertilization, thinning, harvest)Fruit quality, composition and nutritional benefits.Peach fruit growth, development and ripening physiology.Postharvest technology, including supply chain management protocols.Preharvest and postharvest diseases.Biology and management of insect pests.The peach canning industry.This is an essential resource for students and researchers in horticulture, as well as professionals in pomology including fruit growers, consultants and extension specialists, and cold storage and transportation managers.

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Yes, you can access Peach by George Athanasios Manganaris, Guglielmo Costa, Carlos Crisosto, George Athanasios Manganaris,Guglielmo Costa,Carlos H Crisosto in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Horticulture. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. CONTRIBUTORS
  6. 1. PEACH: AN INTRODUCTION
  7. 2. PEACH TREE ARCHITECTURE: TRAINING SYSTEMS AND PRUNING
  8. 3. PEACH ROOTSTOCK DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE
  9. 4. CULTIVARS
  10. 5. IRRIGATION AND WATER MANAGEMENT
  11. 6. FERTILIZATION AND PLANT NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
  12. 7. FRUIT THINNING
  13. 8. PEACH FRUIT GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, RIPENING AND POSTHARVEST PHYSIOLOGY
  14. 9. NON-DESTRUCTIVE PEACH FRUIT MATURITY AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT
  15. 10. POSTHARVEST SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS AND HANDLING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS
  16. 11. PEACH FRUIT QUALITY: COMPONENTS, COMPOSITION, AND NUTRITIONAL AND HEALTH BENEFITS
  17. 12. COMMON PREHARVEST DISEASES OF PEACH AND NECTARINE CAUSED BY FUNGI AND BACTERIA: BIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
  18. 13. MAJOR POSTHARVEST DISEASES OF PEACH AND NECTARINE WITH A REVIEW OF THEIR MANAGEMENT
  19. 14. BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF INSECT PESTS
  20. 15. THE PEACH CANNING INDUSTRY
  21. INDEX
  22. Back Cover