The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses

Name: The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses
Author: Desmond R Layne, D Bassi
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845933869
Date: 2008

Description:
The Peach provides a comprehensive up to date reference work, summarizing our knowledge of peaches and their production worldwide and includes an extensive colour plates section. Chapters written by international authorities address botany and taxonomy, breeding and genetics of cultivars and rootstocks, propagation, physiology and planting systems, crop and pest management and postharvest physiology. The book also includes a contribution on the history of cultivation and production trends in China with historical references dating back to 1100 B.C for the first time in the English language.