Book ID: 95940
Bhattacharjee, Supriya Kumar
Vanilla. The World's Most Flavourful Spice Orchid of Commerce. 2008. 16 col. pls. XII, 196 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Arranged in 24 chapters to review, streamline and highlight the achievements on this crop. It is a comprehensive and up-to-date document on history, production and export, the genus and species, anatomy, cytology and breeding, flowering and pollination, synthetic seeds, propagation, agro-technology and plant protection of Vanilla. There are fascinating chapters on curing of beans; flavour and aroma compounds; grading, packaging, storage and transportation; markets and marketing. Interesting and elaborate chapters are also provided on quality evaluation, adulteration and synthetic vanillin, vanilla products and uses.