Root Stocks for Fruit Crops

Providing all the information needed to understand rootstocks as they develop in temperate tree fruit crops, as well as in citrus and grapes, this book includes treatment of roots as well as the rootstocks of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, almonds, apricots, plums, citrus, pecans, juglans and vitis. The book covers specific characteristics and uses of each rootstock, propagation procedures used to produce rootstocks and trees and specific compatibilities and stock-scion interactions. Outlined are the pros and cons of every rootstock application covered along with end-of-chapter tables that briefly summarize key characteristics of the specific rootstock discussed.