Horticulture and vegetable crops

Ebook "Value addition of horticultural crops: Recent trends and future directions" combines several ideas and philosophies and provides a detailed discussion on the value addition of fruits, vegetables, spices, plantation crops, floricultural crops and in forestry. Separate chapters address the packaging, preservation, drying, dehydration, total quality management and supply chain management of horticultural crops. The book explains value addition as a process of increasing the economic value and consumer appeal of a commodity with special reference to horticultural crops.

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Ebook "Biointensive integrated pest management in horticultural ecosystems" deals with the most recent biointensive integrated approaches for pest management utilizing components such as bioagents [predators, parasitoids and pathogens (bacteria, fungi, viruses)], botanicals (biofumigation, oil cakes, FYM, compost, crop residues, green manuring and other organic amendments), arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, physical methods (hot water treatment of planting material, soil solarization), cultural methods (crop rotation, summer ploughing, fallowing, intercropping, pruning, mulching, spacing, plant...

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Ebook "Horticulture: Plants for people and places - Volume 2: Environmental horticulture" coverage of unique topics – no previous book has contained this amount of information covering the entire spectrum of horticulture and horticultural science from crop production through environmental contexts to social impacts and welfare benefits. International authority – all the authors contributing to this trilogy are internationally acclaimed authorities each bringing vast accumulated knowledge and expertise.

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Snake melon (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, “Faqqous”) is a traditional and ancient vegetable in the Mediterranean area. A collection of landraces from 42 grower fields in Israel and Palestinian territories was grown and characterized in a “Common Garden” rain-fed experiment, at the morphological-horticultural and molecular level using seq-DArT markers.

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Ebook "Basic agriculture: Student handbook (NSQF Level-2 - Class X)" has been introduced with the following objectives: to create awareness about cereals, pulses, oilseed crops, important fruits, vegetables and flowers; to create awareness about various breeds of animals, poultry, fushes and their importance; to impart knowledge about package of practices for growing various crops; to impart basic knowledge on major insect-pests and diseases of various crops, animals and measures to protect them by various means;...

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A field experiment entitled “Study on intercropping of fenugreek (Trigonellafoenum graecum L.) with different short duration vegetables” was conducted at the vegetable farm, Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalrapatan City, Jhalawar during rabi season 2019-20.

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Brassica is a very important genus of Brassicaceae, including many important oils, vegetables, forage crops, and ornamental horticultural plants. TLP family genes play important regulatory roles in the growth and development of plants. Therefore, this study used a bioinformatics approach to conduct the systematic comparative genomics analysis of TLP gene family in B. napus and other three important Brassicaceae crops.

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Lotus is an aquatic horticultural crop that is widely cultivated in most regions of China and is used as an important off-season vegetable. The principal root of lotus is degenerated, and adventitious roots (ARs) are irreplaceable for plant growth.

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Bolting refers to the early flowering stem production on agricultural and horticultural crops before harvesting. Indeed, bolting is an event induced by the coordinated effects of various environmental factors and endogenous genetic components, which cause a large reduction in the quality and productivity of vegetable crops like spinach.

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Invasion by alien perennial weed Mikania micrantha has created a serious problems in Southeast Asia. This climbing vine possesses very fast growth rate and could multiply from seed and vegetative parts. It climbs on other plants, create a dense cover and block sunlight thereby damage or kill the other plant. It compete for water, soil nutrient and release allele-chemicals inhibiting growth of plants. The weed creates economic loss to plantation, horticultural crops, displaces and kills native vegetation. It is designated as one of the worst invasive plants of the world. M.

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Onion (Allium cepa) also known as bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable crop that belongs to family Amaryllidaceae and the most widely cultivated species of genus Allium. Onion is an important horticultural commodity grown worldwide for their culinary purposes and medicinal values. Indian onions are famous for their pungency and are available round the year. One cup of chopped onion contains approximately 64 calories, 15gm of carbohydrate, 0 gm of fat, 0 gm of sugar, 2gm of protein and10 percent or more of the daily value for vitamin c, vit-B-6.

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An experiment was conducted at College of Horticulture, Noorsarai during 2012-2015 to diversify and intensify the rice-wheat cropping system by including vegetables as cash crops for developing need based intensive and profitable cropping system for small farmers of irrigated upland conditions of Bihar.

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The water productivity of different agricultural and horticultural crops and rice –rice and maize – vegetable based cropping systems in Kothakunta sub watershed in Siddipet district of Telangana, India that helps to suggest alternative agronomic measures for increasing the water productivity.

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In India, presently about 35 to 40 per cent of the onion is estimated to be lost as postharvest losses during various operations including handling and storage. Serious losses occur during storage due to sprouting and rotting. Keeping this in view, an investigation was carried out to study the effect of different packing and storage methods on storage life of aggregatum onion cv. CO on 5.

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The growth of horticultural crops is economically rewarding. This sector is expected to grow and contribute to food and nutritional security, provided, the sector is nurtured with focused infrastructure development and has a conducive policy environment. Fruit and vegetables are packed full of goodness and often contain a number of essential vitamins and minerals that cannot be found in other types of foods or they may contain higher levels of these nutrients than other foods.

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Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) are naturally occurring soil bacteria that can enhance plant growth by wide variety of mechanisms. PGPR offers an attractive way to replace chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and supplements. Agriculture and horticulture crops inoculated with certain PGPR strains may result in multiple effect right from enhancement of seedling germination to vegetative growth to yield.

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A long-term investigation to under-stand soil fertility and scope of improvement in building-up of fertility and nutrient levels was carried-out adopting khejri based crop production site management approaches at ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Bikaner under hot arid agro-climate.

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Field experiment were conducted involving 50 aggregatum onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum) genotypes during 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 at the experimental field of College Orchard, Department of Vegetable Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore to identify the elite aggregatum onion types for high yield and quality.

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The study suggests that proper awareness by concerns department had to be initiated towards the importance of fruits and vegetables in the daily diet. As the topography of the state is very suitable for fruits and vegetables, a cluster approach in the development of appropriate crops for certain areas has to be set off by the horticulture institutions for the welfare of the farmers and the farming households as a whole.

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In the present review, 16 fruit crops, 19 vegetable crops, 2 ornamental plants and more than 20 medicinal plants of Indian origin having capacity to develop immunity of individuals is discussed.

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