Table of Contents

List of Figures , List of Tables , About the Editors , Contributors , Preface , Anatomy and Taxonomy , Pome Fruit , Stone Fruit , Other Temperate Tree Fruit , Breeding and Molecular Genetics , Hybridization , Nontraditional Breeding Techniques , Carbohydrate Partitioning and Plant Growth , Seasonal Patterns of Carbohydrate Production , Partitioning to Tree Organs , Environmental Factors Affecting Partitioning , Cultivar Selection , Selection Criteria , Multidisciplinary and International Evaluation of Cultivars , Major Cultivars of the World , Diseases , Background on Tree Fruit Diseases and Their Control , Common Pome Fruit Diseases , Common Stone Fruit Diseases , Dormancy and Acclimation , Forms of Dormancy , Specific Cases of Dormancy , Physiological Basis for Dormancy , Acclimation , Dwarfing , Genetic Dwarfing , Horticultural Practices to Induce Dwarfing , Flower Bud Formation, Pollination, and Fruit Set , Flower Formation , Pollination , Fertilization , Fruit Color Development , Color Measurement , Pigments , Physiology of Color Formation in Tree Fruit , Fruit Growth Patterns , What Is a Stone or Pome Fruit? , What Is Fruit Growth? , Growth by Cell Division and Cell Expansion , Growth Patterns of Different Fruit , Importance of Maintaining Fruit Growth , Fruit Shape , Fruit Maturity , The Compromise Between Quality and Storability , Development of Maturity Indices , Maturity or Harvest Indices for Specific Fruit , Maturity Programs , Geographic Considerations , Latitude , Elevation , Water Bodies , Aspec