TY  - BOOK
AU  - Long,Lynn E.
AU  - Lang,Gregory A.
AU  - Kaiser,Clive
TI  - Sweet cherries
T2  - Crop Production Science in Horticulture
SN  - 9781786398291
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Wallingford           UK
PB  - CABI
KW  - eukaryotes
KW  - pruning
KW  - cultivated varieties
KW  - angiosperms
KW  - eudicots
KW  - establishment
KW  - crop production
KW  - plant pathogens
KW  - plant disorders
KW  - Prunus avium
KW  - flowering
KW  - plants
KW  - plant establishment
KW  - plant training
KW  - ripening
KW  - cultivars
KW  - pests
KW  - fruits
KW  - anthesis
KW  - Prunus
KW  - Spermatophyta
KW  - Rosales
KW  - phytopathogens
KW  - plant pests
KW  - rootstocks
KW  - fruiting
KW  - orchards
KW  - pathogens
KW  - Rosaceae
KW  - cherries
N2  - This new book provides comprehensive coverage of sustainable sweet cherry production including global trends, improved varieties and rootstocks, orchard establishment and management, the physiology of growth and cropping, and protecting the crop from adverse climates, pests, and diseases. Sweet cherries are a specialty crop, subject to significant production risks for growers, yet with high potential market returns due to strong consumer demand for the fruit's intensely enjoyable flavor and nutraceutical benefits.  Written by a renowned team of experts, this book emphasizes fresh market sweet cherry production practices based on scientific principles. It serves as a resource for a scientific foundational understanding of cherry tree growth and fruit development, providing the keys to both reasoned choice of orchard practices and the solution of future problems across a wide range of growing conditions and environments. The book: - Covers improved sweet cherry varieties and rootstocks. - Describes state-of-the-art tree training and production systems. - Considers production risk management technologies and decisions. Heavily illustrated and presented in full color throughout, Sweet Cherries is written with practical details and underlying physiological concepts for use by beginning and established fruit growers, consultants, and advisors, in addition to students and professionals in horticulture
UR  - https://cabi-prod.literatumonline.com/action/showBook?doi=10.1079%2F9781786398284.0000
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