Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses

Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses

Author: A. W. Whiley, B. Schaffer
ISBN: 9780851993577
Pages: 432
Format: 18 X 26
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 2002

Readership
Students, researchers and educators in horticulture, botany and agriculture; also growers, breeders and others involved in the avocado industry.

Key Features
• Contributors are leading researchers in the field.
• Includes chapters on physiology, agronomy, production, utilization, storage and the industry.
• Standard international reference work.

Main Description
Over recent years avocado has become an important crop in many tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. This book summarizes avocado science and technology and reviews production practices on a worldwide scale.
The book is split into 14 chapters and covers all aspects of avocado production and science and includes: history, distribution and uses, taxonomy and botany, propagation, crop management, diseases and insect and mite pests.

Main Contents
16 pages of Colour plates
o History, distribution and uses, R J Knight, Jr, University of Florida, USA
o Taxonomy and botany, R W Scora, University of California, USA, B N Wolstenholme, University of Natal, South Africa and U Lavi, ARO, Israel
o Genetics and classical breeding, E Lahav and U Lavi, ARO, Israel
o Ecology: climate and the edaphic environment, B N Wolstenholme, University of Natal, South Africa
o Reproductive biology, S Gazit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and C Degani, ARO, Israel
o Environmental physiology, B Schaffer, University of Florida, Florida, USA and A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia
o Cultivars and rootstocks, S D E Newett, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia, J H Crane, University of Florida, USA and C F Balerdi, University of Florida, USA
o Propagation, G S Bender, University of California Cooperative Extension, USA and A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia
o Biotechnology, F Pliego-Alfaro, Departamento Biologia Vegetal, Spain, Witjaksono, University of Florida, USA, A Barcelo-Munoz, Centro de Investigacion y Formacion Agraria, Spain, R E Litz, University of Florida, USA and U Lavi, ARO, Israel
o Crop management, A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Queensland, Australia
o Irrigation and mineral nutrition, E Lahav, ARO, Israel and A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia
o Foliar, fruit and soilborne diseases, K G Pegg,, L M Coates, Both, University of Florida, USA, L Korsten, University of Pretoria, South Africa and R M Harding, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
o Insect and mite pests, G K Waite, Queensland Institute of Horticulture, Australia and R Martinez Barrera, Universidad Michocana de san Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico
o Harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport and processing, P J Hofman, Queensland Institute of Horticulture, Australia Y Fuchs, Institute of Techology and Storage of Agricultural Products, Israel and D L Milne, Merensky Technological Services, South Africa