(Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science) 1 edition
by Prof. George Hochmuth (Editor), Dr Felipe H. Barrios-Masias (Contributor), Dr Cristina Lazcano (Contributor), Dr Leonardo H. Hernandez-Espinoza (Contributor), Dr Frederik Börnke (Contributor), Dr Dietmar Schwarz (Contributor), Dr Laura A. Chatham (Contributor), Prof. John A. Juvik (Contributor), Dr Andre da Silva (Contributor), Dr Timothy Coolong (Contributor), Dr Ajay Nair (Contributor), Dr Martine Dorais (Contributor), Dr Dimitrios Savvas (Contributor), Dr Damianos Neocleous (Contributor), Dr Xin Zhao (Contributor), Dr Francesco Di Gioia (Contributor), Dr Kathleen Delate (Contributor), Dr Erin N. Rosskopf (Contributor), Dr Wenjing Guan (Contributor), Prof. Mohammad Babadoost (Contributor), Emeritus Prof. Kenneth Sorensen (Contributor), Dr Joshua Freeman (Contributor), Prof. Max Teplitski (Contributor), Prof. Emmanuel Geoffriau (Contributor), Prof. Mary Ruth McDonald (Contributor), Dr Zachariah Telfer (Contributor), Dr Germán Sandoya (Contributor), Dr Rosemary Collier (Contributor), Prof. Todd Wehner (Contributor), Dr Rachel Naegele (Contributor), Prof. S. Alan Walters (Contributor), Dr Charles E. Barrett (Contributor), Dr Lucas G. Paranhos (Contributor), Dr Kati W. Migliaccio (Contributor), Dr Gary K. England (Contributor), Dr Lincoln Zotarelli (Contributor), Dr Diego Rubiales (Contributor), Dr María J. González-Bernal (Contributor), Dr Tom Warkentin (Contributor), Dr Rosalind Bueckert (Contributor), Dr Maria C. Vaz Patto (Contributor), Dr Kevin McPhee (Contributor), Dr Rebecca McGee (Contributor), Dr Petr Smýkal (Contributor)
Sustainability involves meeting current needs without compromising the ability to meet future requirements. Like other crops, vegetable cultivation faces a number of challenges in ensuring sustainable production. These challenges include the need to improve yields and quality to meet rising demand and higher consumer expectations, the need to reduce the ongoing threats from pathogens and pests. Focussing on temperate cultivation, Achieving sustainable cultivation of vegetables summarises the wealth of research addressing these challenges, from breeding improved varieties to better techniques for cultivation and crop protection.
Part 1 reviews advances in physiology and breeding. Parts 2-3 summarise advances in cultivation and pest management. The final part includes case studies on the breeding and cultivation of key vegetables such as carrot, lettuce and cabbage.
With its distinguished editor and range of expert authors, this will be a standard reference for horticultural scientists in universities, government and other research centres involved in supporting vegetable cultivation, as well as companies supporting the vegetable sector.
