"This book provides a comprehensive review of fig growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing, health, and industrial uses"--
The common fig
Ficus carica L. is an ancient fruit native to the Mediterranean. Dried figs have been successfully produced and processed in arid regions with little sophisticated infrastructure for centuries. Figs are rich in fibre, trace minerals, polyphenols and vitamins, with higher nutrient levels than most fruits.
Advances in agricultural production and postharvest technologies have not only improved the efficiency of dried fig production but have facilitated the development of both local and export high value fresh fig industries. The result is high quality fresh figs marketed internationally throughout the year.
This book provides a comprehensive summary of fig growing, processing and marketing from a scientific and horticultural perspective. The nineteen chapters include in-depth discussions of:
- History
- Physiology
- Breeding and Cultivars
- Propagation
- Site Selection and Orchard Establishment
- Nutrition and Irrigation Management
- Pollination Management
- Integrated Pest Management
- Greenhouse Production
- Harvesting, Dried and Fresh Fig Processing
- The Medicinal Uses of Figs
- World Fig Markets
The Fig: Botany, Production and Uses is a comprehensive applied resource for academic researchers, also producers, processors, and marketers of dried and fresh figs.
Daugiau informacijos
Academic researchers and those involved in Research and Development in the fig industry.
1: History, Archaeology and Culture
2: Taxonomy, Botany and Physiology
3: Production and Growing Regions
4: Biodiversity, Germplasm Resources and Breeding Methods
5: Fig World Cultivars
6: Propagation Techniques and Nursery Management
7: Environmental Requirements and Site Selection
8: Orchard Establishment Tree Management
9: Fig Wasps and Pollination
10: Soil and Nutritional Requirements
11: Irrigation and Water Requirements
12: Fungal, Bacterial, and Nematodes Problems in Figs
13: Fig Viruses, Viroids and Phytoplasmas
14: Arthropod Pests of Fig and Their Management
15: Fruit Maturity, Harvest Methods and Technologies
16: Postharvest Physiology and Physiological Disorders of Fresh Fig Fruits
17: Processing and Industrialization
18: Fig and Health
19: World Fig Market
Ali Sarkhosh (Edited By) Ali Sarkhosh is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist (fruit crops) in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, where he has developed research and extension programs in fruit crop production, physiology, and diversification. His research focus is on developing and extending sustainable fruit crops production in Florida. Dr. Sarkhosh has over 15 years of experience with research and production of different fruit crops in U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Iran. His research with fruit crops has focused on assessment of cultural practices to optimize yield and production efficiency, rootstocks and cultivars evaluations, and breeding. Toward improving fruit crops production, he published many sources of both technical and referred articles in production, physiology, breeding, and genetic diversity.
Alimohammad Yavari (Edited By) Ali M. Yavari is a private pomologist and consultant. Mr. Yavari received his M.S. in horticulture (Pomology) from the University of Urmia, Iran. Mr. Yavari has expertise in all aspects of fruit crops production as well as interacting worldwide with commercial growers and researchers in the field of fruit production, mainly tropical and subtropical fruits. His experiences in fig production are mos harvesting and exporting issues, and training courses for orchardists. He provides public and private sectors with designing project design and writing proposals related to fig production and other tropical and subtropical fruits.
Louise Ferguson (Edited By) Louise Ferguson is an Extension Specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of California in Davis (UC-Davis). Dr. Ferguson has developed research and extension programs in pistachios, olives, figs, citrus, persimmons and pomegranates. Her research focus is on developing and extending long-term applications for sustainable tree production. Specific applied research areas are alternate bearing of tree crops, rootstock effects on multiple scion characteristics, salinity tolerance of pistachios, fig breeding, and mechanical harvesting and pruning of olives and pistachios. She has served as Director of the Fruit and Nut Research and Information Centre at University of Califorina Davis, President of the Plant Growth Regulation Society of America and American Society of Horticultural Science and Core Faculty for the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation's Ag Leadership program.
