Tropical fruits. Volume 1 /
The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues such as tree management and postharvest handling, updated and expanded to include best handling practices...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. :
CABI Pub.,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Crop production science in horticulture ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues such as tree management and postharvest handling, updated and expanded to include best handling practices and food safety issues and the way to address these issues in marketing. Following these are self-contained chapters on single fruits which provide in-depth studies of botany, areas of origin and distribution, descriptions of ecological requirements and world production and utilization of each fruit. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on opening page (viewed Jan. 26, 2011). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845937478 1845937473 |
| DOI: | 10.1079/9781845936723.0000 |