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Successful seed supplies are vital in maintaining vegetable production and availability, and for ensuring food security for many subsistence farmers in developing countries. Providing a broad and expert coverage of the horticultural production of vegetables grown from seed, this fully updated new edition includes new coverage of the production of genetically modified crops, organic seed production, packaging, and honey bee population, as well as updated references and further reading. It is an essential text for horticulturists, researchers, seed scientists, vegetable producers, students, technicians and practitioners in vegetable seed production in both developed and developing countries.

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1: Organization 2: Principles of seed production 3: Agronomy 4: Harvesting and processing 5: Storage 6: Seed handling, quality control and distribution 7: Chenopodiaceae 8: Asteraceae (formerly Compositae) 9: Cruciferae 10: Cucurbitaceae 11: Leguminosae 12: Solanaceae 13: Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae) 14: Alliaceae 15: Gramineae 16: Amarantaceae and Malvaceae

Vegetable Seed Production

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      Publisher CABI Publishing
      Published 14 October 2009
      ISBN-13 9781845935214
      978-1845935214
      ISBN-10 1845935217
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      Commercial horticulture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Successful seed supplies are vital in maintaining vegetable production and availability, and for ensuring food security for many subsistence farmers in developing countries. Providing a broad and expert coverage of the horticultural production of vegetables grown from seed, this fully updated new edition includes new coverage of the production of genetically modified crops, organic seed production, packaging, and honey bee population, as well as updated references and further reading. It is an essential text for horticulturists, researchers, seed scientists, vegetable producers, students, technicians and practitioners in vegetable seed production in both developed and developing countries.

      Table of Contents
      1: Organization 2: Principles of seed production 3: Agronomy 4: Harvesting and processing 5: Storage 6: Seed handling, quality control and distribution 7: Chenopodiaceae 8: Asteraceae (formerly Compositae) 9: Cruciferae 10: Cucurbitaceae 11: Leguminosae 12: Solanaceae 13: Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae) 14: Alliaceae 15: Gramineae 16: Amarantaceae and Malvaceae

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