AOBPreview originally published online on August 18, 2009
Annals of Botany 2009 104(6):vii; doi:10.1093/aob/mcp206
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Breeding plantation tree crops. Tropical species
Breeding plantation tree crops. Tropical speciesS Mohan Jain, PM Priyadarshan. eds. 2009.
New York, USA: Springer Science + Business Publishing. £153 (hardback). 654 pp.
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This Tropical species volume of the Breeding plantation tree crops series, edited by S. Mohan Jain and P.M. Priyadarshan, is aimed at providing comprehensive information on a package of conventional breeding, biotechnology and molecular tools to scientists, students and even policy makers and planters. The volume has a total of 16 chapters on fruits and nuts (banana, mango, guava, papaya, grape, date palm, litchi, avocado and cashew), oil crops (coconut, oil palm and olive), industrial crops (rubber) and beverages (coffee, tea and cocoa). Each chapter is devoted to one single crop and follows roughly the same shape: economic importance, botany, genetic resources, cultivars,
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