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This book of 'olives' is the result of many years' endeavours in collecting valuable information from the existing literature concerning the olive tree and its culture; a proportion of this information, and experience, has originated from scientific projects of the author and his scie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Crop production science in horticulture ;
18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- History of olive growing
- Olive origin and classification
- Morphology and taxonomy of the olive
- Structure and composition of the olive fruit
- Acreage, number of trees of olive oil and table olives
- Rootstocks
- Major trends in olive farming systems in the European Union
- Climatic and soil conditions
- Flower bud induction and differentiation
- Flowering, pollination, fertilization, fruiting
- Alternate bearing
- Fruit thinning
- Systems of planting and canopy training
- Propagation of olive trees
- Olive irrigation
- Water use efficiency by olives
- Stress induced proline and mannitol accumulation
- Mineral nutrition of olive trees
- Growth and salt tolerance of olives
- Pruning
- Olive ripening
- Olive fruit harvesting
- Olive varieties
- Table olives
- Olive oil extraction, storage, quality, certification and authenticity
- Olive mill products and environmental impact of olive oil production
- Oleuropein, olive leaf extract, olive oil and the Mediterranean diet benefits to human health
- Biological and integrated olive culture
- Chemical and integrated weed management in olive orchards
- Pests and diseases
- Biotechnological aspects of olive culture.