Book ID: 105459
Carmo Bassols Raseira, Maria do, José Francisco Martins Pereira and Flavio Luiz Carpena Carvalho
Pessegueiro. 2014. Many col. figs. 776 p. gr8vo. - In Portuguese.
The focus of this book is on Brasil, where 'pessegueiro' (Prunuspersica) was introduced by Martim Alfonso de Souza in 1532. Deals with origin and history, morphology, acclimatisation, cultivars, molecular methods for improvement of the plant, cultivation, nematodes and insects, production, plus several chapters on the cultivation in some Brasilian regions (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Parana, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, etc.).