Technology for Vegetable Production and Improvement

Technology for Vegetable Production and Improvement has been designed to serve as a textbook for graduate and early postgraduate level students of agriculture and horticulture of Indian agricultural universities. There is a detailed and single-source coverage of the principles on which production technologies and breeding methods of vegetable crops are based. Providing different comparative data, this book discusses the present status of vegetable cultivation in India, nutritional value and classification of vegetables, environmental influences on vegetable production (temperature, light, soil, water, nutrients), post-harvest handling, storage, marketing and export of vegetables, viability, longevity, certification and storage of vegetable seeds, reproduction system and breeding methods of vegetable crops, heterosis and detailed hybrid seed production methods elucidating the phenomena, male sterility, self-incompatibility and unisexualism, breeding for resistance to diseases and biotechnological approaches in vegetable breeding.