Books in the Innovations in Horticultural Science series

Presents an extensive overview of crop production techniques on tropical and subtropical fruits, processing, marketing, breeding efforts, harvesting, and postharvest handling, as well as pest and disease management, marketing/trade, varieties and breeding, etc., of banana, citrus, durian, grapes, guava, jackfruit, litchi, mango, and papaya.

With chapters written by scientists from respected institutes and universities around the world, this book looks at the bioprospecting of medicinal plants for potential health uses and at the pharmacognosy of a selection of medicinal and aromatic plants.The book touches on a diverse selection of topics related to medicinal plants. Chapters look at the use of medicinal plants in healthcare and disease management, such as to treat inflammation, antihyperglycemia, and obesity and as immunity boosters. The authors also address the conservation, maintenance, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants along with postharvest management issues. A chapter discusses the use of synthetic seeds in relation to cryopreservation, and a chapter is devoted to the use of microcomputed tomography and image processing tools in medicinal and aromatic plants. Other topics include consumption, supply chain, marketing, trade, and future directions of research.

This volume, Advances in Pest Management in Commercial Flowers, looks at the major challenges and improvements in this growing area today. It first provides an informative overview of worldwide pests of important commercial flowers.

The new book Vegetable Pathosystems: Ecology, Disease Mechanisms, and Management provides an overview of the multitude of pathogens that plague vegetables in various conditions as well as the growing concerns associated with these phytopathogens.

This book highlights biotechnological tools and their utilization for biotic stress management in the tomato plant, one of the world¿s most important vegetable crops consumed by us in our daily diet and which is vulnerable to over 200 diseases as well as the impact of global climate change.

Focuses on the diseases of ornamental plants and spice crops. The management of any disease involves its detailed study regarding symptoms, casual agent, disease cycle and epidemiology. Included are disease symptoms, causal organisms, disease cycles, epidemiology, and management of the diseases of these economically important crops.

Discusses the key diseases, typical symptoms, and management strategies of several economically important plantation crops, medicinal crops, and mushrooms. The chapters cover key diseases, typical symptoms, and management strategies. The volumes also include photographs that show symptoms of important diseases.

Tackles the problems presented by diseases in vegetable crops that can reduce yield and quality. The chapters provide an introduction along with plant disease symptoms, causal organisms, disease cycles, epidemiology, and effective management solutions for diseases of economically important vegetables.

Provides valuable information on major diseases of a selection of fruit crops along with effective management techniques. Each chapter in the volume includes an introduction, disease symptoms, causal organisms, disease cycles, epidemiology, and management of economically important plants.

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1: Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvements outlines the contemporary trends in sustainable horticulture research in particular, covering topics on crop diversity, species variability and conservation strategies, production technology, tree architecture management, plant propagation and nutrition man

Diseases of Fruits and Vegetable Crops: Recent Management Approaches covers certain basic aspects of knowledge on diagnostic symptoms, modes of perpetuation and dissemination of pathogens, favorable conditions for disease development, and the latest management strategies for disease prevention.