The Pear: Production, Post-Harvest Management and Protection

Contents: Preface. Foreword. I: General Aspects. 1. Introduction/R.M. Sharma, S.N. Pandey and V. Pandey. 2. Composition, Quality and Uses/F.A. Masoodi, Deep Ji Bhat and Ali Abbas Wani. II: Genetic Resources and Crop Improvement. 3. Origin and Taxonomy/K.Kumar and R.K. Negi. 4. Breeding and improvement/Manmohan Sharma and J.C. Rana. 5. Traditional varieties/R.M. Sharma, S.K. Yadav, Vishal Raina and Sajid Mustafa. 6. New Varieties/R.R. Singh, A.D. Sharma and Abid Ali Malla. III: Propagation and Bio-technological Interventions. 7. Rootstocks/Parshant Bakshi and D.R. Singh. 8.  Propagation/Amit Jasortia, Surinder Kumar and Manisha Mangal. 9. Applications of Biotechnology/Manisha Mangal and Mamta Sharma. 10. DNA Fingerprinting for varietal Identification/R.K. Salgotra, Ravi Kher and Anil Kumar Singh. IV: Orchard Establishment. 11. Climate/Ajay Kumar Sharma, K.K. Srivastava, S.R. Singh and Biswajit Das. 12. Soil/P.K. Rani and D. Tripathi. 13. Planting/Sushil Sharma, Manoj Kumar and N.K. Gupta. V: Orchard Management. 14. Orchard Soil Management/S.R. Singh and M.K. Sharma. 15. Water Management/V. Pandey, Dinesh Kumar and Vishal Nath. 16. Nutrition/Vikas Tondon. 17. Training and Pruining/Biswajit Das. 18. Canopy Management/K.K. Srivastava, Ajay Kumar Sharma, S.R. Singh and M.K. Sharma. VI: Physiology, Flowering, Fruiting and Yield. 19. Flowering/Kiran Kour and Parshant Bakshi. 20. Pollination/M.S. Khan and Poonam Srivastava. 21. Fruit set and Thinning/Ashok Kumar Singh. 22. Use of Plant Bio-regulators/Mahital Jamwal, Suneel Sharma and SanjaySahay. 23. Fruit Development/Shyam Nagina Pandey and Arti Sharma. 24. Maturity Indices/Monika Sood, Rajesh Kumar and Vikas Sharma. 25. Harvesting/Sushil Sharma and N.K. Gupta. 26. Yield/V.K. Tripathi, R.M. Sharma and S.K. Yadav. VII: Post-Harvest Management. 27. Post- Harvest handling/Anju Bhat, Raj Kumari Koul and R.M. Sharma. 28. Storage and Ripening/R.M. Sharma, S.K. Bhatia and Rakesh Kumar. 29. Disorders: Symptomes, Causes and Remedial Measures/Julie Dogra Bandral, K.S. Thakur and R.S. Bandral. 30. Professing/Anju Bhat and V.K. Joshi. 31. Residues in Fruit/Tarun Verma and Beena Kumari. VIII: Plant Protection. 32. Insect Pests: An overview/R.K. arora, R.K. Gupta and Ishtiyaq Ahad. 33. Mites/R.N. Singh and Kuldeep Srivastava. 34. Pear Psylla and Major Sucking pests/Kamlesh Bali and R.K. Arora. 35. Lepidopterous and other Insect pests/Kuldeep Srivastava, Uma Shankar and Md. Monobrullah. 36. Use of Biological control Agents in pests/Md. Monobrullah and V. Kaul. 37. Fire Blight/M.K. Pandey, V.S. Verma, Deepak Kumar and J.N. Srivastava. 38. Pear Scab/Shahzab Ahmad and Vinay Sagar. 39. Virus, Phytoplasma and Viroid Diseases/P.K. Sharma. P.D. Thakur and Dharmesh Gupta. 40. Pre-and Post-Harvest Diseases of Fruits/A.K. Tewari, V.K. Razdan and A. Vaid. 41. Minor Diseases/J.N. Srivastava, P.K. Sharma and M.K. Pandey. IX: Economics, Marketing and Future Thrusts. 42. Production Economics and Marketing/Sudhakar Dwivedi, Pawan Kumar Sharma and S.P. Singh. 43. Constraints, Potentials, prospects and Future Line of Work/V. Pandey, R.M. Sharma and S.N. Pandey. Index.

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