Vegetables II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Family Fabaceae (=Leguminosae)

   1. Garden Pea

      • Mike Ambrose

      Pages 3-26

   2. Snap Bean

      • Metaxia Koutsika-Sotiriou, Ekaterini Traka-Mavrona

      Pages 27-83

3. Family Liliaceae

   1. Asparagus

      • Fernando López Anido, Enrique Cointry

      Pages 87-119

   2. Onion

      • Masayoshi Shigyo, Chris Kik

      Pages 121-159

4. Family Solanaceae

   1. Eggplant

      • Marie-Christine Daunay

      Pages 163-220

   2. Pepper

      • Kevin M. Crosby

      Pages 221-248

   3. Tomato

      • María José Díez, Fernando Nuez

      Pages 249-323

5. Family Umbelliferae (=Apiaceae)

   1. Carrot

      • Philipp W. Simon, Roger E. Freeman, Jairo V. Vieira, Leonardo S. Boiteux, Mathilde Briard, Thomas Nothnagel et al.

      Pages 327-357

6. Back Matter

   Pages 359-365

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The production and consumption of vegetables has expanded dramatically in the last years, with a global growth in the production of more than 50% in the last decade, a rate of increase that is much higher than for other plant commodities. Vegetables constitute an important part of a varied and healthy diet and provide significant amounts of vitamins, antioxidants and other substances that prevent diseases and contribute to an improvement in the quality of life. In consequence, it is expected that in the coming years, vegetable crops production will continue its expansion. Improved varieties have had a main role in the increases in yield and quality of vegetable crops. In this respect, the vegetables seed market is very dynamic and competitive, and predominant varieties are quickly replaced by new varieties. Therefore, updated information on the state of the art of the genetic improvement of specific crops is of interest to vegetable crops breeders, researchers and scholars. During the last years an immense quantity of new knowledge on the genetic diversity of vegetables and the utilization of genetic resources, breeding methods and techniques, and on the development and utilization of modern biotechnologies in vegetables crop breeding has accumulated, and there is a need of a major reference work that synthesizes this information. This is our objective.

• Apiaceae
• Fabaceae
• Liliaceae
• Solanaceae
• Umbelliferae
• bean
• breeding
• crops
• genetic improvement
• plant breeding
• plant science
• vegetables

• COMAV-UPV, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  Jaime Prohens, Fernando Nuez

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