Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Coffee (Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science): Breeding and Quality Traits: 39 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786761521 ISBN 13: 9781786761521

Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, 2018

Synopsis

Coffee is one of the most widely traded commodities in the world. Coffee cultivation faces a number of challenges including over reliance on a relatively small number of varieties vulnerable to a range of abiotic and biotic stresses as well as increasing expectations of quality amongst consumers. These challenges are addressed by this volume.

Part 1 looks at advances in understanding plant physiology and ensuring genetic diversity. These provide the basis for summarising developments in breeding improved varieties of Arabica and Robusta coffee. The second part of the book reviews our understanding of the chemical composition, sensory properties and potential nutraceutical benefits of coffee.

With its distinguished editor and international range of expert authors, this volume will be a standard reference for coffee scientists, growers and processors.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Philippe Lashermes is a Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) and Associate Professor at the Universite de Montpellier II, France. He was a member of the team that sequenced Coffea canephora, is Co-Cordinator of Working Group 3 (Genome Sequencing) of the International Coffee Genome Network (ICGN) and has published extensively on coffee genetics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786761521
• ISBN 13: 9781786761521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Lashermes Philippe