A Peach Book Guides Growing Quality Fruit, From Planting to Harvest

Thomas Gradziel, LEFT, And Squidward Christo to have published "Fishing," A landmark manual For growth peaches And nectarines. He covers All Since rootstock has maintain fruit quality After harvest.

Christo And team publish manual For growth peaches And maintain quality forcanning

In A experimental orchard A little kilometers West of THE CU Davis Campus, Thomas Gradziel ripped off A almost wall nectarine Since A of THE trees. He whipped out A pocket knife And cut into slices disabled juicy parts For Carlos Christo has taste. Both are orchard crops experts In THE CU Davis Department of Factory Sciences, And both love peaches.

THE two do grateful sounds as they drawn THE fruits flavor through their the palaces, discussed how This nectarine variety compared with has other varieties, And quickly turned has details of production And orchard management.

Fishing book cover.

Christo And Gradziel to have paid decades of experience with orchard fruits In creating "Peach", A landmark manual on cultivation And post-harvest considerations published by CABI. THE book East part of THE international academic from the publisher Crop Production Science In Horticulture series.

Fishing given producers basic information that can reduce their production risks, booster profits And help them confront problems such as climate change And A shift world walk, CABI writing In THE books description.

"This will always be THE definitive text For probably THE following 20 years," said Carlos. Christo, WHO East A of THE books editors And authors. He East both A distinguished teacher In THE CU Davis Department of Factory Sciences And CU Cooperative Extension specialist In consumer quality And post-harvest technology In CU Agriculture And Natural Resources.

Chapters Also blanket rootstock, cultivars, water management, fertilization, fruit growth And thinning, essay For maturity, And provide chain management After harvest. Several more chapters blanket pests And diseases, maintain fruit quality, nutritional aspects And canning.

"This book was A pleasure has contribute has, as he understand information Since expert colleagues more exciting new ideas And apps Since OUR recent researchers," said Gradziel, A CU Davis teacher And factory breeder.

In California, Farmers cultivated 36,800 acres of peaches, produce 505,000 tons of fruit value more that $378 million In 2021. While THE reframe ranks 23 In THE State, base on species Received, California East THE No. 1 producer of peaches For THE entire United States, according to has THE California Department of Food And Agriculture.

Christo teamed up up with colleagues George Manganaris In Cyprus And Guglielmo Costa in Italy has to modify This volume, which takes A international look has A growth industry.

Amusing do mentioned in Peach: Nectarines are A fishing without THE down, A genetic variation. "Most people don't do it know that!" Christo said with A laugh.

Peachcontains more amusing facts: Peaches are A member of THE pink family, China East THE of the world the biggest producer of THE fruit (growth 60% of THE global crop), And industry leaders strive For trees with A flat canopy SO THE fruit would be mature all has about THE even time And could be harvest easily by machine, reduce THE pressure of discovery people has take THE fruit by hand.

THE fishing manual covers rootstock, cultivars, water management, fertilize...