Sweet Cherries (eBook)

Lynn E Long, Gregory A Lang, Clive Kaiser (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
360 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78639-830-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Sweet cherries are a speciality crop, subject to significant production risk for growers, yet with high potential returns due to strong consumer demand. This book covers the history, genetic improvements, production, physiology of growth and cropping, orchard establishment and management, and harvesting for sustainable cherry production.

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This new book provides comprehensive coverage of sustainable sweet cherry production including global trends, improved varieties and rootstocks, orchard establishment and management, the physiology of growth and cropping, and protecting the crop from adverse climates, pests, and diseases. Sweet cherries are a specialty crop, subject to significant production risks for growers, yet with high potential market returns due to strong consumer demand for the fruit's intensely enjoyable flavor and nutraceutical benefits.

Written by a renowned team of experts, this book emphasizes fresh market sweet cherry production practices based on scientific principles. It serves as a resource for a scientific foundational understanding of cherry tree growth and fruit development, providing the keys to both reasoned choice of orchard practices and the solution of future problems across a wide range of growing conditions and environments. The book:
- Covers improved sweet cherry varieties and rootstocks.
- Describes state-of-the-art tree training and production systems.
- Considers production risk management technologies and decisions.

Heavily illustrated and presented in full color throughout, Sweet Cherries is written with practical details and underlying physiological concepts for use by beginning and established fruit growers, consultants, and advisors, in addition to students and professionals in horticulture.

Rezensionen

This book is the most comprehensive document in modern cherry production, physiology, and technology that I have read in my 37 years as a pomologist/horticulturist. I will strongly be recommending this book to my graduate students... At the same time, the book is understandable for commercial fruit growers.

The step-by-step illustrations and pictures, meshed with the clarity of language used makes the book one of the most useful reference that researchers, fruit growers and packing houses, fruit hobbyists, and graduate students should have on their bookshelf.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Crop Production Science in Horticulture
• Reihe/Serie: Crop Production Science in Horticulture
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: fresh market • Fruit Quality • labor efficiency • orchard establishment • Pest management • protected production • Prunus avium • rootstock • sweet cherry • training systems
• ISBN-10: 1-78639-830-3 / 1786398303
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78639-830-7 / 9781786398307