Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops

By: Maria Luisa Badenes and Patrick Brown and Nicolas Roux and Araceli Barceló-Muñoz and Vicente Vicente and Óscar Martínez and Eddo Rugini and Luciana Baldoni and Alain Rival and Magda-Viola Hanke and Henryk Flachowsky and Julie Graham and Luis A. Cañas and Dennis J. Gray and Stephen Adkins and J. R. Botella and Leandro Pena and Ossama Kodad and Pedro Martínez-Gómez and Abhaya Dandekar and Sadanand A. Dhekney and Yuval Cohen and Kate Evans and Nuria Alburquerque and Pedro M. Barros and A. T. Basford and Muhammad Ajmal Bashir and Diego Silva Batista and Dr Julianne Biddle and Manuel Blasco and Lorenzo Burgos and John E. Carlson and Elisabeth Carmona and David Chagné and Rekha Chaudhury and Elisabeth Chevreau and V. E. Chhatre and Yelda Özden Çiftçi and C. Claflin and Elena Corredoira and Valerio Cristofori and Niccolò Cultrera and Maurecilne Lemes da Silva and Leo D’Souza and Ofere Francis Emeriewen and M. Faize and Fábio Gelape Faleiro and Ana Paula Farinha and Yolanda Ferradás and Antonio Figueira and Maureen M.M. Fitch and M. Foale and Svetlana Y. Folimonova and María Victoria González and Isabel María González-Padilla and Smitha Hegde and Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza and Uma Jaiswal and Nikki Jennings and Hülya Akdemir Koç and Nerea Larrañaga and Chuck Leslie and Z. J. Li and Amanda De Lopes and Carlos López-Encina and Rodolfo López-Gómez and Jorge Lora and Zheng-Rong Luo and S. K. Malik and Roberto Mariotti and Antonio J. Matas and José Mercado and Scott Merkle and Sara Montanari and Gloria Moore and Soraya Mousavi and Isabel Narváez and María Del Naval and Q. T. Nguyen and Shashikiran Nivas and M. Margarida Oliveira and Ahmet Onay and Guillermo Padilla and Elena Palomo-Ríos and Andreas Peil and Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente and Cesar Petri and Paula M. Pijut and Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro and Clara Pliego and Fernando Pliego-Alfaro and Simon H.T. Raharjo and Manoj K Rai and Manuel Rey and Gabino Ríos and Diego Ismael Rocha and M. B. Rosenberg and M. Rouard and D. Ruiz and J. Sardos and Danielle Camargo Scotton and Cristian Silvestri and Michael K Smith and Guo-Qing Song and Veysel Süzerer and Alicia Talavera and Ryutaro Tao and Takuya Tetsumura and Engin Tilkat and Pablo Ric Varas and Wagner Vendrame and Francisco Javier Viéitez and Hazel Wetzstein and Roxana Yockteng and Qing-Lin Zhang

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Synopsis: This book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnologies and also traditional ones, such as regeneration pathways, protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis, and ploidy manipulation that have been applied to many of these species. Three species, Diospyros kaki (persimmon), Punica granatum (pomegranate) and Eriobotrya japonica (loquat) are included for the first time, and several Prunus species now receive separate coverage. The species are organized by plant family to facilitate comparisons among related ones. Each species is discussed in relation to its family and its related wild forms, and most are accompanied by full colour illustrations. This book is a vital resource for those working on the improvement of perennial fruit, nut and plantation crops. The book features: Detailed coverage of major perennial fruit and crop species. Coverage of traditional and new biotechnologies. Full colour illustrations to aid identification This book is an essential resource for scientists and postgraduate students who are engaged in the improvement of perennial fruit, nut and plantation crops and will also be an important accession for university and agricultural research libraries.