Chestnut Handbook - Crop & Forest Management

Chestnut Management and Production shares achievements in chestnut development and cultivation including information on sustainable planning and management of chestnut production from nursery to plantation, entomology, pathology, and ecosystem services.

List of contents

1. History 2. Botany, anatomy and nut composition 3. Distribution, marketing and trade 4. Cultivars list and breeding 5. Nursery techniques. 6. Orchard establishment and management 7. Chestnut farming with Chinese, Japanese and Eurojapanese hybrid cultivars 8. European chestnut traditional and high density orchards 9. Postharvest handling 10. Coppice and forest management 11. Diseases 12. Pests 13. Pests, diseases and physiological disorders symptoms and control vade mecum

About the author

Gabriele Loris Beccaro is associate professor of General Arboriculture at the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences of the University of Torino (Italy).

Alberto Alma is full professor of Entomology at the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino.

Giancarlo Bounous is currently Liaison Leader, Subnetwork on Chestnut, within the framework of the FAO/CIHEAM Inter-regional Cooperative Research Network on Nuts.

José Gomes-Laranjo is associate professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal).

Summary

Chestnut Management and Production shares achievements in chestnut development and cultivation including information on sustainable planning and management of chestnut production from nursery to plantation, entomology, pathology, and ecosystem services.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriele Alma Beccaro
• Assisted by: Alberto Alma (Editor), Gabriele Beccaro (Editor), Giancarlo Bounous (Editor), Jose Gomes-Laranjo (Editor), José Gomes-Laranjo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032084305
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208430-5
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Pest Control, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural science, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture, Agronomy & crop production, Botany and plant sciences, Pest control, Agronomy and crop production, Pest control / plant diseases