Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization - Volume 1: Africa and the Americas (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)

This important 2-volume reference book is the first comprehensive resource reflecting the current global status and prospects of date palm cultivation by country. This volume covers Africa and the Americas. Countries included are: Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroon, Djibouti, Chad, Mali Somalia, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Senegal, as well as the United States of America and the South American countries Chile and Peru. Topics discussed are: cultivation practices; genetic resources and breeding; conservation and germplasm banks; cultivar classification and identification based on morphological and molecular markers; micropropagation and progress toward scale-up production; and advances in dates processing and marketing. Chapters are supported by tables and color photographs. Appendixes summarize traits and distribution of major cultivars, commercial resources of offshoots and in vitro plants; and institutions and scientific societies concerned with date palm.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	March 2015
Editors:	Jameel M. Al-Khayri • Shri Mohan Jain • Dennis V. Johnson
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	546
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9401796934
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant reproduction & propagation > General Promotions
LSN:	9401796939
Barcode:	9789401796934

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