Breeding for Fruit Quality
Title | Breeding for Fruit Quality PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew A. Jenks |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2011-01-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0470959347 |
The global demand for high quality fruits that are rich in nutrients and that can endure the demands of worldwide supply chains is growing rapidly. Fruits are an important component of the human diet, providing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. All of these qualities contribute to the nutritional needs and health maintenance of humans. Breeding for Fruit Quality reviews the application of modern plant breeding methods to the development of improved varieties of fruits. Breeding for Fruit Quality opens with chapters that look at fruit biology and breeding strategies behind specific traits, including a look at traits such as organoleptic quality, nutritional value, and improved yield, among others. Subsequent chapters review breeding efforts to improve overall quality in a wide range of specific fruits. Providing broad ranging coverage of cutting edge methods now being applied to the development of fruit crops, Breeding for Fruit Quality will be a valuable resource for fruit biologists, breeders, geneticists, and industry personnel. Key Features: Broad coverage of modern breeding technologies being implemented to improve overall fruit quality Trait specific chapters explore efforts to promote traits of industrial and nutritional importance Chapters in fruits, ranging from apple and grapes to tomatoes and olives, provide detailed coverage of breeding practices for economically important fruit crops
Fruit Breeding
Title | Fruit Breeding PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Luisa Badenes |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 882 |
Release | 2012-01-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1441907629 |
Fruit Breeding is the eighth volume in the Handbook of Plant Breeding series. Like the other volumes in the series, this volume presents information on the latest scientific information in applied plant breeding using the current advances in the field, from an efficient use of genetic resources to the impact of biotechnology in plant breeding. The majority of the volume showcases individual crops, complemented by sections dealing with important aspects of fruit breeding as trends, marketing and protection of new varieties, health benefits of fruits and new crops in the horizon. The book also features contributions from outstanding scientists for each crop species. Maria Luisa Badenes Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Valencia, Spain David Byrne Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
BREEDING FOR FRUIT QUALITY
Title | BREEDING FOR FRUIT QUALITY PDF eBook |
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Release | 2015 |
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ISBN | 9781781638187 |
Fruit Breeding, Tree and Tropical Fruits
Title | Fruit Breeding, Tree and Tropical Fruits PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Janick |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 750 |
Release | 1996-05-02 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780471310143 |
This is the first volume in a three volume comprehensive reference work presenting detailed information on the breeding of horticultural crops. In a systematic way, the work presents: the history and commercial importance of each fruit, the origin and early development of cultivation, regional characteristics, breeding objectives, fruit characteristics such as color and shape, and disease resistance. Volume 1 deals with tree fruits: Apples, Apricots, Avocado, Banana/Plantain, Cherry, Peach, Pear, and Plum.
Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits
Title | Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits PDF eBook |
Author | P. K. Ray |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2002-06 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9783540428558 |
Plant breeding has undergone a period of very rapid and significant development in recent years and the area of fruit breeding is no exception. This book provides a balanced, up-to-date and comprehensive account of the developments in the field of breeding tropical and subtropical fruits. It offers not only the theoretical and applied aspects of breedings fruits but also provides an authoritative manual of the conventional and new techniques used for increasing efficiency of crop improvement programmes. In specific chapters the book deals with crop taxonomy, genetic resources, floral biology, breeding objectives, inheritance patterns and information on new improved cultivars/hybrids.
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Berries
Title | Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Berries PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin M. Folta |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2016-04-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1439856605 |
Recent interest in the health-related, culinary, and biological properties of berries is stimulating new initiatives in berry breeding and production. Breakthroughs in molecular technologies allow genomics-enabled approaches to augment research efforts. This volume documents the basic botany and culture of four major berry crops and follows the sci
Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Fruits
Title | Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Fruits PDF eBook |
Author | Jameel Al-Khayri |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 988 |
Release | 2018-07-20 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 331991944X |
This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding for the production of new crop varieties, under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors, to achieve sustainable agricultural production and enhanced food security. Two volumes of Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies were published in 2015 and 2016, respectively; Volume 1: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. This is Volume 3: Fruits, which is focused on advances in breeding strategies for the improvement of individual fruit crops. It consists of 23 chapters grouped into three parts, according to distribution classification of fruit trees: Part I, Temperate Fruits, Part II, Subtropical Fruits, and Part III, Tropical Fruits. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors' own experience.