The Chestnut Handbook: Crop & Forest Management

ISBN-13: 9781032084305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 380 str.

Gabriele Beccaro; Alberto Alma; Giancarlo Bounous

Opis

Chestnut Management and Production shares achievements in chestnut development and cultivation including information on sustainable planning and management of chestnut production from nursery to plantation, entomology, pathology, and ecosystem services.

Spis treści

1. History 2. Botany, anatomy and nut composition 3. Distribution, marketing and trade 4. Cultivars list and breeding 5. Nursery techniques. 6. Orchard establishment and management 7. Chestnut farming with Chinese, Japanese and Eurojapanese hybrid cultivars 8. European chestnut traditional and high density orchards 9. Postharvest handling 10. Coppice and forest management 11. Diseases 12. Pests 13. Pests, diseases and physiological disorders symptoms and control vade mecum

O autorze

Gabriele Loris Beccaro is associate professor of General Arboriculture at the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences of the University of Torino (Italy).

Alberto Alma is full professor of Entomology at the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino.

Giancarlo Bounous is currently Liaison Leader, Subnetwork on Chestnut, within the framework of the FAO/CIHEAM Inter-regional Cooperative Research Network on Nuts.

José Gomes-Laranjo is associate professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal).