This book is essential reading for students and lecturers in horticulture. Edited by experts from Canada and New Zealand, this new edition provides a full update of the previous 1987 (Butterworths New Zealand) publication. With the addition of a coeditor from Canada, the book is now more balanced and applicable worldwide. It provides information on the wide variety of fruits and their cultivation, which are found throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world and encompasses both large scale commercial operations and the activities of amateur gardeners. This new edition: - Is written by leading experts with many years experience of researching and teaching horticulture, plant physiology, pathology and agricultural engineering - Would serve as a basic undergraduate text in pomology - Is equally relevant to Northern and Southern hemispheres - Includes comprehensive tables and key points for each specific fruit for easy reading.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Wallingford
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 172 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85199-271-6 (9780851992716)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
A graduate of Lincoln College in the late 1950's, he joined the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research where he investigated aspects of tree growth, flowering, fruiting, and storage of apples, pears, peaches, apricots and nectarines. Between 1961 and 1964 he studied for a PhD at the Waite Institute in Adelaide. In 1968 he returned to Lincoln where he extended his research to include grape production and physiology. He is co-author of The Production of Grapes and Wine in Cool Climate Viticulture, Pruning and Training, and Edible Tree Nuts in New Zealand. was Head of the Pomology and Viticulture Section at Summerland for more than 15 years. His service to national and international horticultural science includes being Chair of the Fruit Section of the International Society for Horticultural Science (1994-2000), President of the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science (1997-99; CSHS Life Membership awarded in 2002), President of the 24th International Horticultural Congress (2002), and President of the International Society for Horticultural Science (2002-2010; awarded Fellow of ISHS in 2006). Dr. Looney is also a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science (1985). He owns and operates a peach orchard overlooking Okanagan Lake in interior British Columbia.
Autor*in
Chair of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 54, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, , AUSTRALIA
Herausgeber*in
formerly Lincoln University, New Zealand
Formerly Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Canada
Part 1 The distribution of fruits; climate and fruit plants; morphology and growth of woody plants; flowers and fruit; pruning and training; fruit maturation, handling and other practices; soils, nutrients and water; plant protection - pest and weed control; propagation of fruit plants; machinery for horticulture. Part 2 Colour section; stonefruit; pipfruit; grapes; berryfruit; citrus; subtropical and tropical fruit; miscellaneous and minor fruit crops; edible nuts.
