Author: P.K. Ray
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: fruits, subtropical, tropical, breeding
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540428550
ISBN-13: 9783540428558

Plant breeding has undergone a period of very rapid and significant development in recent years and the area of fruit breeding is no exception. This book provides a balanced, up-to-date and comprehensive account of the developments in the field of breeding tropical and subtropical fruits. It offers not only the theoretical and applied aspects of breedings fruits but also provides an authoritative manual of the conventional and new techniques used for increasing efficiency of crop improvement programmes. In specific chapters the book deals with crop taxonomy, genetic resources, floral biology,

Author: Jacqueline Walker
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: garden, subtropical
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0881923591
ISBN-13: 9780881923599

A tempting selection of palms, bamboos, shrubs, foliage plants, perennials, orchids, and ferns suitable for gardeners in USDA zones 9 and 10---or adventurous souls in colder areas who want to garden on the edge---or for use in containers for overwintering indoors.

Authors:D I Jackson, N E Looney,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: production, fruit, subtropical, temperate
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-01-06
List price: $72.20
ISBN-10: 0851992714
ISBN-13: 9780851992716

This book is essential reading for students and lecturers in horticulture. Edited by experts from Canada and New Zealand, this new edition provides a full update of the previous 1987 (Butterworths New Zealand) publication. With the addition of a coeditor from Canada, the book is now more balanced and applicable worldwide. It provides information on the wide variety of fruits and their cultivation, which are found throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world and encompasses both large scale commercial operations and the activities of amateur gardeners.This new edition:

Author: Cho-Teng Liu
Publisher: Pergamon
Keywords: srsso, volume, cospar, oceans, subtropical, remote, sensing, space
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-08-12
List price: $237.00
ISBN-10: 0080428509
ISBN-13: 9780080428505

This volume contains the proceedings from the COSPAR Colloquium on "Space Remote Sensing of Subtropical Oceans" which took place between 12 and 16 September, 1996, at the Institute of Oceanography of the National Taiwan University. Included are contributions addressing the issue, from scientific points of views, of why the first scientific satellite of Taiwan, ROCSAT-1, should be equipped with the Ocean Colour Imager (OCI) for oceanographic investigations.

Authors:David Jackson, Norman Looney, Michael Morley-Bunker,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: production, fruit, subtropical, temperate
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2011-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1845935012
ISBN-13: 9781845935016

Effective fruit production requires general knowledge of aspects of fruit husbandry such as nutrition, propagation, pruning and training, effects of climate and crop protection, as well as specific cultivation techniques for each fruit. Fully revised and expanded, this new edition provides a thorough introduction to the cultivation of fruit found throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world.

Authors:Luiz Drude de Lacerda, Ricardo Erthal Santelli, Egbe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: environmental, science, engineering, environments, subtropical, geochemistry, tropical
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-03-31
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 3540425403
ISBN-13: 9783540425403

The book includes 20 contributions on diverse aspects of the environmental geochemistry in tropical and sub-tropical environments. These contributions summarize original information which is seldon available in the current day literature. Most of the chapters includes extensive original data that will serve many researchers interested in the tropics and sub-tropics. A group of papers on methods and their applications will serve directly to scientists involved in environmental research in the tropics. Also some interesting intercontinental comparisons are availaberl on paleoclimatology, environ