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In this book (Part-I and II) sixty eight underutilized fruit crops have been included viz., aonla, avocado, babaco, bael, barbados cherry, Indian barberry, ber, bilimbi, black mulberry, blackberry, bread fruit, burans, burmese grape, cactus pear, cattley guava, chestnut, chironji, cranberry, durian, fig, hazelnut, horse chestnut, Indian almond, Indian persimmon, jamun, kaiphal, kair, karonda, khejri, khirni, kiwifruit, kokum, loganberry, longan, loquat, mahua, ...
Minor fruits have many advantages in terms of easier to grow, hardy in nature, can be grown in poor, marginal and problematic soils and can produce good yield even under extreme weather conditions. There are many minor fruit crops which are less known to the common people even agriculture or horticulture students about its nutritional and medicinal value of the crops. A good number of research works has been carried out world wide on various aspect of minor fruit ...
Progress in the fruit crop breeding has gained fast momentum in last few decades through integrated approaches using conventional and modern breeding tools. Efforts have been made to provide the maximum information about the varieties developed and their salient characteristics. Breeding methods also been elaborated in the self explanatory manner.
In this book 22 temperate fruit crops viz., apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, strawberry, cherry, almond, kiwi, ...
From the preface: Crop improvement in other word plant breeding is one of the basic and vital branch of plant science which mainly deals with creation and/or development of new genotypes (s) through different methods like introduction, selection including that of clones, hybridization, mutation and polyploidy as well as through biotechnological tools. Main Objective of improvement in any crop is either for introduction in new locality or further improvement of ...
