Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

Book Summary:

 

Encyclopedia of Fruit Breeding covers fruit breeding. Plant breeding has
undergone a period of very rapid and significant development in recent
years and the area of fruit breeding is no exception. It provides a balanced, up-to-date, and comprehensive account of the developments in the field of breeding tropical and subtropical fruits. It offers not only the theoretical and applied aspects of breedings fruits but also provides an authoritative manual of the conventional and new techniques used for increasing the efficiency of crop improvement programs. The volume “Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits” is divided into ten chapters.

Audience Of this Book:

This book is Useful for Biotechnology Students.

 

Table of Content:

Chapter 1 Climate Change Affects Winter Chill for Temperate Fruit and Nut Trees

Chapter 2 A Comparative Study on Wall Degrading Enzymes, Pectin Modifications and Softening During Ripening of Selected Tropical Fruits

Chapter 3 Consequences of Broadscale Timber Plantations for Biodiversity in Cleared Rainforest Landscapes of Tropical and Subtropical Australia

Chapter 4 Pollination and Breeding Systems of Woody Plant Species in Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests, Southern India

Chapter 5 Quantifying the Global Environmental Niche of an Underutilised Tropical Fruit Tree (Tamarindus Indica) Using Herbarium Records.

Chapter 6 Açaí (Euterpe oleraceae) ‘Brs Pará’: A Tropical Fruit Source of Antioxidant Dietary Fiber and High Antioxidant Capacity Oil

Chapter 7 Male and Female Condition Influence Mating Performance and Sexual Receptivity in Two Tropical Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) With Contrasting Life Histories

Chapter 8 Evaluation of Breeding Substrates for Cocoa Pollinator, Forcipomyia spp. and Subsequent Implications for Yield in a Tropical Cocoa Production System

Chapter 9 Catechin and Epicatechin Contents in Wines Obtained from Brazilian Exotic Tropical Fruits

Chapter 10 Advances in Transgenic Vegetable and Fruit Breeding.