Production and Protection of Horticultural Crops

Contents: 1. Molecular biology of flowering in plants/Deepu Mathew. 2. Beneficial endophytes in horticultural crops/Pious Thomas. 3. Entomopathogenic nematodes to manage insect pests/Rajkumar and M Sujithra. 4. Principles of standardization and certification/A. Govindan. 5. Hydroponics for enhanced vegetable production/M.A Deepa. 6. Mechanization in vegetable farming/K.R.M. Swamy. 7. Management of major pests and diseases of vegetables and fruits: progress in using plant-derived products in India/R. T. Gahukar. 8. Pesticide residue analysis in vegetables/Gagan Jyot, Sanjay K Sahoo and Balwinder Singh. 9. Soybean based food products for health and wellness/S.D. Kulkarni. 10. Production and processing of spices/Minoo Divakaran, Jayasree, K Nirmal Babu and K V Peter. 11. Propagation through tissue culture in spice crops/K.V. Peter and K. Nirmal Babu. 12. Ultra High Density Planting (UHDP) in mango: standardization of fertigation/Sandip Makhmale. 13. Advances in propagation of orchids-cymbidium/Rampal, M. Dayamma and D. R. Singh. 14. Insect pests of orchids and their management/N. K. Meena and Rampal. 15. Methylene-cyclo-propyl glycine in sapindaceae family/S. Asthana, A. Tripathi, P.D. Dwivedi, A. Kumar and M. Das. 16. Mango malformation/K.Usha and Ashok Yadav. 17. Development of Tomato Hybrids - Arka Samrat and Arka Rakshak with Triple Disease Resistance to ToLCV, Bacterial Wilt and Early Blight/A.T. Sadashiva, Peter Hanson, M. Krishna Reddy, K. Madhavi Reddy, C. Gopalakrishnan, Shankar Hebbar, K.V. Ravishankar, T.H. Singh and Girija Ganeshan.

The present book has 17 chapters authored by 30 working scientist's covers basic and applied sciences of vegetables, fruits, flowers, spices and value added products. One of the rare books carrying detailed information not only production but also cover methods and management techniques on how to protect and ensure proper and nutritional growth of the horticultural crops.