Date palm genetic resources and utilization. Volume 1, Africa and the Americas /

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Imprint:Dordrecht : Springer, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Online access with purchase: Springer (t)
Subject:Date palm -- Genetics.
Date palm -- Africa.
Date palm -- North America.
Date palm -- South America.
Agriculture.
Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.
GARDENING / Fruit
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General
Agriculture.
Life sciences.
Plant breeding.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11092560
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Varying Form of Title:Africa and the Americas
Other authors / contributors:Al-Khayri, Jameel M., editor.
Jain, S. Mohan, editor.
Johnson, Dennis Victor, 1937- editor.
ISBN:9789401796941
9401796947
9789401796934
9401796939 (print)
9789401796934 (print)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27 2015).
Summary:This important reference book provides a comprehensive assessment of date palm genetic resources and utilization in individual date-producing countries worldwide. The book is published in two volumes; each consists of 15 chapters written by prominent scientists of each country and supported with color illustrations and tabulated data. Volume 1 addresses date-producing countries within Africa and the Americas; whereas, Volume 2 pertains to countries in Asia and Europe. This volume presents the current status and prospects of date palm cultivation in the African and American continents. The African countries included are: Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroon, Djibouti, and the Sahelian African countries of Chad, Mali, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Senegal. In the Americas, the countries covered are the United States, Chile and Peru. Topics discussed in each chapter include cultivation practices, genetic resources and conservation, plant tissue culture, cultivar identification, cultivar descriptions, date production and marketing, processing and novel products and concludes with recommendations for further development. This volume ends with six appendixes presenting available information on each of the above-mentioned countries pertaining to cultivar descriptions and distribution, commercial sources of dates, offshoots and in vitro plants and research institutes and scientific societies concerned with date palm research and production. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, scientists, commercial producers, consultants and policymakers interested in agriculture particularly in date palm industry. Readers can derive great benefit from the adoption of the policies and practices discussed to enhance production and expand industrialization of traditional and potentially new date products.
Other form:Printed edition: 9789401796934
Standard no.:10.1007/978-94-017-9694-1