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Tropical Fruits, Volume 2
2nd Edition
By: Robert E Paull, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, Odilo Duarte, Escuela Agricola Panamericana – El Zamorano, Honduras
November 2012 | Paperback | 384 Pages | 9781845937898
November 2012 | ePDF 9781845939342 |
£49.60 | €65.45 | $92.85
£49.60 | €65.45 | $92.85
Description
Volume 2 of this revised edition of Tropical Fruits examines the more specialist tropical fruits such as guava, durian, mangosteen, passion fruits and palm fruits. With growing interest in the cultivation, production, study, sales and marketability of these specialist fruits, this is a timely and informative book. Topics like botany, soil and climate requirements, cultivar development, world production and harvesting and postharvest handling are covered in-depth for each crop. This practical and accessible book is an ideal text for Horticulture academics, researchers, extension workers, students, breeders, growers and policy makers.Table of contents
- 1: Annonas: Soursop and Rollinia
- 2: Breadfruit, Jackfruit, Chempedak and Marang
- 3: Carambola and Bilimbi
- 4: Durian
- 5: Guava
- 6: Mangosteen
- 7: Rambutan and Pulasan
- 8: Passion Fruit and Giant Passion Fruit
- 9: Palms
- 10: Other African Fruits: Tamarind, Marula and Ackee
- 11: Other Tropical Asian and Pacific Fruit
- 12: American Fruit
- 13: Index
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Robert E. Paull
Professor Paull graduated from the University of Sydney with a BS in Agronomy, was involved in cotton production research before going to the University of California in Berkeley for a PhD in plant physiology. He returned to Australia and carried out research on chilling injury of tropical plants before his appointment to the University of Hawaii to teach and do research on postharvest physiology and handling. He teaches plant physiology and provides guest lectures on postharvest physiology and handling in applied courses. His research focuses on the adaptation and application of technology to the improvement of postharvest handling in a integrated and systematic way. This research has lead to more than hundred peer-reviewed publication, over eighty extension type articles and is co author on three books and co-edited five including The Encyclopedia of Fruits and Nuts published by CABI with Dr. Jules Janick.
Odilo Duarte
Emeritus Professor Duarte graduated with BS from Universidad Agraria – La Molina, Lima, Peru, a MS in Horticulture from University of California – Davis, MBA from the Universidad del Pacifico – Lima, Peru and a Doctorate in Agricultural Sciences Cum Laude from Technische Universitaet, in Fruit Crop Production. He was Head of the Fruit Crops section, Escuela Agricola Panamericana at El Zamorano, Honduras from 1989 to 2008 when he retired and returned to Peru. Prior to his years at El Zamorano, he was Professor and Head of the Fruit Crops Research Program Universidad Agraria, La Molina, Lima, Peru, has held a number of managerial positions in private industry, and has had numerous consultancy on tropical fruit production. At El Zamorano, he received several student awards for his undergraduate teaching. He is widely published in the area of tropical fruit production and propagation.
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