Onions and Other Vegetable AlliumsRelates the production and utilization of onions and other vegetable allium crops to the many aspects of plant science underpinning their production and storage technologies. This book covers species and crop types, plant structure, genetics and breeding, physiology of growth and development as well as pests and diseases. |
Contents
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2 THE STRUCTURE OF EDIBLE ALLIUMS | 27 |
3 THE GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING OF ALLIUM CROPS | 51 |
4 PHYSIOLOGY OF CROP GROWTH DEVELOPMENT AND YIELD | 85 |
WEEDS PESTS DISEASES AND SYMBIONTS | 171 |
Colour Plate | 212 |
Common terms and phrases
alliinase Allium cepa allium crops bacterial base breeding Brewster bulb onions bulb scales bulb yield cells Chinese chives chives chromosomes cloves concentration Courtesy cultivars Currah damage decrease disease dormancy downy mildew dry matter dry weight edible alliums effects elongation emergence enzyme evapotranspiration fertilizer fistulosum flavour flowering foliage fructans fungicides garlic gene genetic germination growing grown growth rate harvest herbicide Horticultural Science humidity hybrid increase infection inflorescence initiation irrigation Japanese bunching onion kg/ha leaf blade leaves leek male-sterile nutrients occur onion Allium cepa onion bulbs onion crop onion cultivars onion seeds pathogen percentage pest photoperiods plant density pollen produce pseudostem quercetin Rabinowitch rakkyo regions resistance respiration rate root seed production seedlings shallot sheaths shoot apex skins soil sowing species spores sprays sprouting stage storage stored bulbs t/ha temperature thrips tissue transplanting umbel water potential weed Wellesbourne white rot