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Matthew A. Jenks - Breeding for Fruit Quality - 9780813810720 - V9780813810720
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Breeding for Fruit Quality

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Description for Breeding for Fruit Quality Hardcover. The global demand for high quality fruits that are rich in nutrients and that can endure the demands of worldwide supply chains is growing rapidly. Fruits are an important component of the human diet, providing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. All of these qualities contribute to the nutritional needs and health maintenance of humans. Editor(s): Jenks, Matthew A.; Bebeli, Penelope. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1006.

The global demand for high quality fruits that are rich in nutrients and that can endure the demands of worldwide supply chains is growing rapidly. Fruits are an important component of the human diet, providing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. All of these qualities contribute to the nutritional needs and health maintenance of humans. Breeding for Fruit Quality reviews the application of modern plant breeding methods to the development of improved varieties of fruits.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780813810720
SKU
V9780813810720
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Matthew A. Jenks
Editors: 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.

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