Litchi and longan: botany, production and uses [electronic resource] Edited by C. M. Menzel, G. K. Waite.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Botany, Production and UsesPublisher: WallingfordUK CABI Publishing 2005Edition: 1Description: 305ppContent type: - text
- computer
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- 9781845930226
- Sapindaceae
- longans
- United States of America
- processing
- pathogens
- Australia
- storage quality
- angiosperms
- plants
- East Asia
- South East Asia
- Gulf States of USA
- Southern Europe
- anthesis
- eukaryotes
- People's Republic of China
- South Atlantic States of USA
- breeding methods
- quality for storage
- Oceania
- subsaharan Africa
- Developed Countries
- geographical distribution
- lychees
- propagation
- eudicots
- Spermatophyta
- postharvest treatment
- Florida
- Dimocarpus longan
- Asia
- Southern Africa
- Litchi chinensis
- America
- USA
- Dimocarpus
- Litchi
- plant propagation
- plant development
- Australasia
- Southeast Asia
- plant pathogens
- Africa South of Sahara
- Europe
- crop quality
- fruit set
- Developing Countries
- Sapindales
- plant pests
- China
- taxonomy
- Dimocarpus longan subsp. longan
- North America
- Southern States of USA
- Dimocarpus longan var. longan
- phytopathogens
- pests
- APEC countries
- plant diseases
- Southeastern States of USA
- Africa
- crop production
- flowering
- Commonwealth of Nations
- systematics
- OECD Countries
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Litchi (lychee) and the related fruit longan are grown extensively in China and South-East Asia, as well as in Australia, Florida (USA), Southern Europe and Southern Africa. This book represents the only comprehensive, balanced and internationally focused publication on these fruit. It covers all aspects of production, from taxonomy and breeding, to propagation, flowering and fruit set, to diseases, pests and postharvest storage and processing. It also contains information on photosynthesis, productivity, plant-water relations and nutrition.
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