Breeding for Fruit Quality
Sobre aquest llibre
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
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Sobre l'autor
Matthew A. Jenks is Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at the Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology at Purdue University.
Penelope J. Bebeli is Professor in the Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry in the Department of Crop Science at the Agricultural University of Athens.
