Growth and Improvement of Horticultural Crops
Growth brings about a
permanent change in any plant or its part in respect to its size, form, weight
and volume. In fruit crops, the inherent nature of a long gestation period,
higher heterozygosity, scanty information on inheritance pattern, often cross
pollination, excessive fruit drop, parthenocarpy and lesser seed number
restricting the availability of hybrid seedlings for evaluation are the real
challenges in crop improvement program.Vegetable improvement includes the
development of hybrids and new varieties for new horti zones, higher yield,
greater tolerances to insect pests and diseases, excellent fruit quality,
nutritional content and physiological efficiency. Evaluation of natural
diversity, selection, hybridization, exploitation of hybrid vigour and male
sterile lines, polyploidy and mutation have played an important role in
production maximization and productivity of both self and cross pollinated
indigenous, commercial and elite vegetable crops.The main emphasis in
ornamental plant breeding is to improve variety traits, novel colour, form,
size, number of flowers, flower vase life, repeat blooming, disease resistance,
nutrient uptake capacity and growth habit.Various types of new varieties of
ornamental crops have been produced for many years by cross hybridization and
mutation breeding techniques, separately or in combination.
In
view of above, the present publication on ‘Growth and Improvement of
Horticultural Crops’ is planned in 10 interesting chapters vividly
highlighting various aspects covering
Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Growth and Development of Horticultural Crops,
Principles and Methods of Training and Pruning of Fruit Crops, Use of Growth
Regulators in Horticulture, Fruitfulness and Unfruitfulness, Nutrient
Management, Water Management, Cropping System, Principle of Organic Farming and
Rejuvenation of Old Orchards.
It may be humbly claimed that this is the most
comprehensive book on growth and improvement of horticultural crops and will be
useful to teachers, students, scientists, nurserymen, landscape designer,
planners, amateurs and professional gardeners and above all farmers.
| Common | |
| Author | L.C. De |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Edition | First |
| ISBN | 978-81-7132-891-8 |
| Language | |
| Number Of Pages | 8+238 |
| Publication Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Pointer Publishers |