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The avocado : botany, production and uses / [edited by Bruce Schaffer, B. Nigel Wolstenholme, and Anthony W. Whiley]. - 2nd ed. - Cambridge, MA : CABI, 2012. - ix, 560 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History, distribution and uses / J.B. Bost, N.J.H. Smith, and J.H. Crane -- Taxonomy and botany / A.S. Chanderbali ... [et al.] -- Genetics and breeding / E. Lahav and U. Lavi -- Ecology: climate and soils / B.N. Wolstenholme -- Reproductive biology / S. Salazar-García, L.C. Garner, and C.J. Lovatt -- Ecophysiology / B. Schaffer ... [et al.] -- Cultivars and rootstocks / J.H. Crane ... [et al.] -- Propagation / A.A. Ernst, G.S. Bender, and A.W. Whiley -- Biotechnology / F. Pliego-Alfaro ... [et al.] -- Irrigation and mineral nutrition / E. Lahav, A.W. Whiley, and D.W. Turner -- Crop management / A.W. Whiley, B.N. Wolstenholme, and B.A. Faber -- Foliar, fruit, and soilborne diseases / E.K. Dann ... [et al.] -- Insect and mite pests / J.E. Peña ... [et al.] -- Harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport and processing / P.J. Hofman, J. Bower, and A. Woolf.

ISBN: 9781845937010 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2012026676

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Avocado.

LC Class. No.: SB379.A9 / A86 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 580

National Agricultural Library Call No.: SB379.A9 / A86 2012