Allium Crop Science :Recent Advances

Publication subTitle :Recent Advances

Author: Rabinowitch   H.D.;Currah   L.  

Publisher: CABI Publishing‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9781845933180

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851995106

Subject: S633 alliaceous

Keyword: Horticulture

Language: ENG

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Description

The Alliums are some of the most ancient cultivated crops and include onions, garlic, leeks and other related plants. The primary aim of this book is to bring together, in a single volume, up-to-date knowledge obtained by a variety of scientific disciplines, from the basic molecular level, to application in the field, of the allium crops.It contains commissioned chapters on topics that have shown major advances particularly in the last ten years such as molecular biology, floriculture and agronomy. Contributors include leading world authorities from Europe, the USA, Japan and New Zealand.

Chapter

1. Evolution, Domestication and Taxonomy

2. Florogenesis

3. Genome Organization in Allium

4. Exploitation of Wild Relatives for the Breeding of Cultivated Allium Species

5. Diversity, Fertility and Seed Production of Garlic

6. Genetic Transformation of Onions

7. Doubled-haploid Onions

8. Molecular Markers in Allium

9. Agronomy of Onions

10. Onion Pre- and Postharvest Considerations

11. Bacterial Diseases of Onion

12. Monitoring and Forecasting for Disease and Insect Attack in Onions and Allium Crops within IPM Strategies

13. Virus Diseases in Garlic and the Propagation of Virus-free Plants

14. Sulphur Compounds in Alliums in Relation to Flavour Quality

15. Health and Alliums

16. Onions in the Tropics: Cultivars and Country Reports

17. Shallot (Allium cepa, Aggregatum Group)

18. Leek: Advances in Agronomy and Breeding

19. Ornamental Alliums

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