Minor Fruit Crops of India

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India is a fascinating country in its fruit wealth where almost all fruits that are consumable to human beings are grown. Quite a considerable number of fruit crops have now been existent in this country as inmates of the man-made plantations but these apart, a large number are still there which are not cropped in organized plantations. These fruit crops which grow here and there as wild and are referred to as under-exploited, less-exploited or minor fruit crops beyond doubt, contribute a substantial part of the country’s fruit production. Despite demerits like high degree of acerbity, astringency, bitterness or other features that make some of them less agreeable to man, some are highly relished. Above all, these materials are claimed to be hardy and productive without receiving artificial agro-inputs. Many of them are equipped with qualitative and nutritive traits and high medicinal properties. Out of the large number of these fruit crops, only a few that are found to grow in tropical and sub-tropical parts of India have been chosen and discussed in the title with presentation of pertinent research results.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.C. Mazumdar

Prof. Bibhas Chandra Mazumdar has been in the profession of teaching and supervising researches on fruit culture, growth and developmental physiology of crop plants and biochemistry of fruit crops in some Indian Universities since the year 1971 after his doctoral degree on biochemistry of growth, flowering and fruiting of mango cultivars. Major areas of his researches in teaching career include growth and developmental aspects of fruit crops, pectic metabolism, plant physiology, papaya latex and on less-exploited minor fruit crops grown in India. In the area on physiology and biochemistry of fruit growth, a number of his research contributions are considered to be of fundamental importance. He has so far to his credit 5 text books on fruit crops and horticulture and 129 research papers published in the journals of India, U.S.A. and U.K. as well as 17 scientific articles brought out in the magazines of India and the U.K. in the same areas.

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Title
Minor Fruit Crops of India
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8170353335
Length
xii+146p., Plates; 23cm.
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