Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization: Volume 1: Africa and the Americas (2015)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9789401796941
Related ISBNs:
9789401796934
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Technology
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jameel M. Al-Khayri
Edited by:
Shri Mohan Jain
Edited by:
Dennis V. Johnson

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