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List of contents
List of Figures , List of Tables , About the Editors , Contributors , Preface , Anatomy and Taxonomy , Pome Fruit , Stone Fruit , Other Temperate Tree Fruit , Breeding and Molecular Genetics , Hybridization , Nontraditional Breeding Techniques , Carbohydrate Partitioning and Plant Growth , Seasonal Patterns of Carbohydrate Production , Partitioning to Tree Organs , Environmental Factors Affecting Partitioning , Cultivar Selection , Selection Criteria , Multidisciplinary and International Evaluation of Cultivars , Major Cultivars of the World , Diseases , Background on Tree Fruit Diseases and Their Control , Common Pome Fruit Diseases , Common Stone Fruit Diseases , Dormancy and Acclimation , Forms of Dormancy , Specific Cases of Dormancy , Physiological Basis for Dormancy , Acclimation , Dwarfing , Genetic Dwarfing , Horticultural Practices to Induce Dwarfing , Flower Bud Formation, Pollination, and Fruit Set , Flower Formation , Pollination , Fertilization , Fruit Color Development , Color Measurement , Pigments , Physiology of Color Formation in Tree Fruit , Fruit Growth Patterns , What Is a Stone or Pome Fruit? , What Is Fruit Growth? , Growth by Cell Division and Cell Expansion , Growth Patterns of Different Fruit , Importance of Maintaining Fruit Growth , Fruit Shape , Fruit Maturity , The Compromise Between Quality and Storability , Development of Maturity Indices , Maturity or Harvest Indices for Specific Fruit , Maturity Programs , Geographic Considerations , Latitude , Elevation , Water Bodies , Aspec
Summary
In 42 broad and substantial articles, rather than short entries more common to an encyclopedia, US researchers in pomology and related agricultural and biological sciences provide information for readers interested in both the art and science of growing fruit trees in temperate zones. Part of the co
