Table of Contents

1: Botany and Importance S K Mukherjee (deceased) and R E Litz 2: Taxonomy and Systematics J M Bompard 3: Important Mango Cultivars and Their Descriptors R J Knight, Jr., R J Campbell and I Maguire 4: Breeding and Genetics C P A. Iyer and R J Schnell 5: Reproductive Physiology T L Davenport 6: Ecophysiology B Schaffer, L Urban, P Lu and A W Whiley 7: Fruit Diseases D Prusky , I Kobiler, I Miyara and N Alkan 8: Foliar, Floral and Soilborne Diseases R C Ploetz and S Freeman 9: Physiological Disorders V Galan Sauco 10: Pests J E Peña, M Aluja and M Wysoki 11: Crop Production: Propagation S Ram (deceased) and R E Litz 12: Crop Production: Mineral Nutrition I S E Bally 13: Crop Production: Management J H Crane, S Salazar-García, T-S Lin, A C de Queiroz Pinto and Z-H Shü 14: Postharvest Physiology J K Brecht and E M Yahia 15: Postharvest Technology and Quarantine Treatments G I Johnson and P J Hofman 16: World Mango Trade and the Economics of Mango Production E A Evans and O J Mendoza 17: Fruit Processing L C Raymundo, M T Ombico and T M de Villa 18. Biotechnology R E Litz, M A Gomez Lim and U Lavi

About the Author

Richard Litz is a professor emeritus in the Department of Horticultural Sciences of the University of Florida. From 1976 until his retirement in 2011, he was at the Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, where he developed and led a research programme that focused on biotechnology of tropical fruit crops, e.g., avocado, carambola, litchi, longan, mango and papaya. His laboratory hosted postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists from 16 countries in the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa and Asia. He has edited seven books about biotechnology of fruit crops and also about mango and has authored more than 150 refereed publications and book chapters. In retirement, Richard lives in a village on the coast of Maine.

Reviews

"This second edition will be the definitive English language work on the crop for the foreseeable future, invaluable to growers, researchers, students and investors in the crop alike."--Rob Lockwood (1/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)