About the Book
Over recent years avocado has become an important crop in many tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. This book summarizes avocado science and technology and reviews production practices on a worldwide scale.The book is split into 14 chapters and covers all aspects of avocado production and science and includes: history, distribution and uses, taxonomy and botany, propagation, crop management, diseases and insect and mite pests.
Table of Contents:
A: 16 pages of Colour plates 1: History, distribution and uses, R J Knight, Jr, University of Florida, USA 2: Taxonomy and botany, R W Scora, University of California, USA, B N Wolstenholme, University of Natal, South Africa and U Lavi, ARO, Israel 3: Genetics and classical breeding, E Lahav and U Lavi, ARO, Israel 4: Ecology: climate and the edaphic environment, B N Wolstenholme, University of Natal, South Africa 5: Reproductive biology, S Gazit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and C Degani, ARO, Israel 6: Environmental physiology, B Schaffer, University of Florida, Florida, USA and A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia 7: Cultivars and rootstocks, S D E Newett, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia, J H Crane, University of Florida, USA and C F Balerdi, University of Florida, USA 8: Propagation, G S Bender, University of California Cooperative Extension, USA and A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia 9: Biotechnology, F Pliego-Alfaro, Departamento Biologia Vegetal, Spain, Witjaksono, University of Florida, USA, A Barcelo-Munoz, Centro de Investigacion y Formacion Agraria, Spain, R E Litz, University of Florida, USA and U Lavi, ARO, Israel 10: Crop management, A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Queensland, Australia 11: Irrigation and mineral nutrition, E Lahav, ARO, Israel and A W Whiley, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Australia 12: Foliar, fruit and soilborne diseases, K G Pegg,, L M Coates, Both, University of Florida, USA, L Korsten, University of Pretoria, South Africa and R M Harding, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 13: Insect and mite pests, G K Waite, Queensland Institute of Horticulture, Australia and R Martinez Barrera, Universidad Michocana de san Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico 14: Harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport and processing, PJ Hofman, Queensland Inst. of Horticulture, Australia Y Fuchs, Inst. of Technology & Storage of Agricultural Products, Israel DL Milne, Merensky Technological Services, S. Africa
About the Author :
Anthony W Wiley is an Independent Consultant with Sunshine Horticultural Services Pty Ltd in Australia. Anthony W Wiley is an Independent Consultant with Sunshine Horticultural Services Pty Ltd in Australia. Richard Litz is a professor emeritus in the Department of Horticultural Sciences of the University of Florida. From 1976 until his retirement in 2011, he was at the Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, where he developed and led a research programme that focused on biotechnology of tropical fruit crops, e.g., avocado, carambola, litchi, longan, mango and papaya. His laboratory hosted postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists from 16 countries in the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa and Asia. He has edited seven books about biotechnology of fruit crops and also about mango and has authored more than 150 refereed publications and book chapters. In retirement, Richard lives in a village on the coast of Maine. Bruce Schaffer is a Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Florida, Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida, USA. He is internationally recognized for his research on ecophysiology of subtropical and tropical horticultural crops, particularly fruit crops, including avocado. In addition to the seven books and proceedings he has edited, he is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in over 40 different journals plus more than 160 other publications including book chapters, technical reports, proceedings papers, and abstracts Nigel Wolstenholme (B.Sc. Agric. cum laude, Horticultural Science, 1960, Ph.D 1967) studied and lectured (1960 - 1998) at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, retiring in 1999. He became Head of the Department of Horticultural Science in 1988. Four year-long sabbaticals, two at Texas A&M University (pecan nut research), and two with co-editor Tony Whiley at Maroochy Horticultural Research Station, Queensland, Australia (avocado research), broadened his horizons. Since the mid - 1970's, research emphasized was the ecology, ecophysiology and horticultural manipulation of subtropical fruit crops for optimization of yield and fruit quality. He supervised or co-supervised 22 completed M.Sc. Agric. and 10 Ph.D candidates. Peer-reviewed scientific papers numbered ca. 60, plus 8 book chapters and 2 book co-editorships, and ca 190 industry-oriented scientific articles of various types. Amongst his prestigeous awards were the Golden Avocado Award (South African Avocado Growers' Association 1998), and Fellow of the University of Natal (1999). Bruce Schaffer is a Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Florida, Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida, USA. He is internationally recognized for his research on ecophysiology of subtropical and tropical horticultural crops, particularly fruit crops, including avocado. In addition to the seven books and proceedings he has edited, he is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in over 40 different journals plus more than 160 other publications including book chapters, technical reports, proceedings papers, and abstracts Nigel Wolstenholme (B.Sc. Agric. cum laude, Horticultural Science, 1960, Ph.D 1967) studied and lectured (1960 - 1998) at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, retiring in 1999. He became Head of the Department of Horticultural Science in 1988. Four year-long sabbaticals, two at Texas A&M University (pecan nut research), and two with co-editor Tony Whiley at Maroochy Horticultural Research Station, Queensland, Australia (avocado research), broadened his horizons. Since the mid - 1970's, research emphasized was the ecology, ecophysiology and horticultural manipulation of subtropical fruit crops for optimization of yield and fruit quality. He supervised or co-supervised 22 completed M.Sc. Agric. and 10 Ph.D candidates. Peer-reviewed scientific papers numbered ca. 60, plus 8 book chapters and 2 book co-editorships, and ca 190 industry-oriented scientific articles of various types. Amongst his prestigeous awards were the Golden Avocado Award (South African Avocado Growers' Association 1998), and Fellow of the University of Natal (1999).
