TY - BOOK AU - Janick, Jules, AU - Paull, Robert E. TI - The encyclopedia of fruit & nuts SN - 9780851996387 (alk. paper) AV - R SB 359 .En19 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge, MA PB - CABI North American Office KW - Tropical fruit KW - Tropical nuts N2 - Provides comprehensive coverage of botanical and horticultural information on temperate, subtrpoical and tropical fruit and nuts of economic significance.Coverage is also given to palms, cacti, and comon fuit often thought as vegetable crops.Contains almost 300 entries,topics covered include history and origins, ecology,breeding and genetics, distribution,uses and nutritional composition. An entry is folloed by a selected bibiliography for further reading on the topic.Information cited are accompanied by illustrated figures, tables and graphs and colored photographs ER -