Horticulture et Planteation Cultures
Cucurbit Vegetables : Biologie, Production & Utilization
Description
Cucurbits comprise an important tropical group de vegetable crops viz., cucumber, melons, squashes, pumpkins, Asiatic gourds, etc., grown extensively en different tropical et sub-tropical regions de le world. They are a unique group de crop plants having special botanical features, their production technologies recording le highest productivity under sophisticated protected cultivation systems et their utilization includes some significant nutritional et nutraceutical constituents, used en native et traditional systems de Indien medicine et also de other Asiatic et African countries, pour human welfare. This volume portrays an exhaustive review et represents a comprehensive treatise sur le different scientific principles, practical applications et farmers' practices. It deals extensively avec several biological aspects, basic et applied to develop production technologies de these crops. Le wealth de information compiled will attract a wide et diverse range de targeted readership de under-graduate et post-graduate students et teaching faculties, Recherche Fellows de State Agricole Universities et ICAR Institutes, besides professionals like Nutritionists, Dieticians, Botanist, Conservators de Génétique Resources, Horticultural Extension Officers en transfer de Technologie services, enlightened farmers, new emerging Supply- Chain Managers de Retail Trade, etc.
Table des matières
Introduction, Uses et Composition, Histoire, Origin et Cytogenetics, Botany et Taxonomy, Flowering, Sex Mechanism et Regulation, Floral Biologie et Fruit Set, Breeding et Improvement, Heterosis Breeding, Resistance Breeding, Polyploidy et Mutation Breeding, Inter specific Hybridization, Génétiques, Biotechnologie, Physiological Aspects de Growth et Développement, Cultural Requirements, Soil Moisture Relations, Manures et Fertilizers, Weed Contrôle, Mulching, Training et Pruning, Protected Cultivation, River Bed Culture, Gestion de Diseases, Gestion de Insect Pests, Mites et Nematodes, Harvesting, Seed Production, Post Harvest Gestion, Minor Cucurbits, Appendix - 1-3, References, Subject Index.