Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2:
Food, Health, and Nutrition

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2: Food, Health, and Nutrition addresses some of the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today. This volume, part of the two-volume compendium, focuses on research trends in sustainable horticulture that include postharvest management and processed food production from horticulture crops, crop protection and plant health management, and horticulture for human health and nutrition.

Global food demand is expected to be double by 2050, while at the same time the production environment and natural resources are continually shrinking and deteriorating due to many complex factors. Horticulture, a major sector of agriculture, is vital to enhancing crop production and productivity in parity with agricultural crops to meet the emerging food demand. Implementing sustainable models of crop production is really an enormous endeavor. Promising technologies and management options are needed to increase productivity to meet the growing food demand despite deteriorating production environments.

Emerging Fruit Juice Processing Technologies: Quality Improvement. Development of Postharvest Processing Technology for Ginger, Turmeric, and Chilli in Mizoram. Waste Products of Horticultural Crops: An Alternative for Developing Entrepreneurship. Osmotic Dehydration of Mango Varieties Alphonso and Totapuri. Breadnut: Innovative Products for the Agro Food Sector. Storage Study of Jamun-Aonla Blended Ready-to-Serve Beverages. Development of Blended Aonla Squash. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Postharvest Dip Treatment for Improving Quality and Storability of Mango (Mangifera indica cv. Dashehari). Postharvest Quality Evaluation of Winter Annuals. Optimizing the Shelf Life of Whole and Fresh Cut Breadfruit in Mauritius. Standardization of Dehydration Techniques of Some Ornamental Foliages. Dependence on Non-Timber Forest Products from Community Forests as a Safety Net for Livelihood Security Among the Villagers of Mamit District, Mizoram. Effects of Black Rot on the Antioxidant Properties of Morris and Sarawak Pineapple (Ananas comosus). Essential Oils as Green Pesticides for Plant Protection in Horticulture. Integrated Health Management in Horticultural Crops. Technology for Diagnosis of Plant Viruses in Horticultural Crops in India. Acaricidal Activity of Petroleum Ether Extract from Seed of Custard Apple, Annona squamosa L. (Annonaceae) Against Red Spider Mite, Oligonychus coffeae (Nietner) Infesting Tea. Evaluation of Some Plant Extracts Against Early Blight of Tomato Under Net House Condition. Bio-Efficacy of Eco-Friendly Pesticides on the Management of Spodoptera litura (Fab.) on Cabbage. Foliose Lichen Species: A Potential Source for Bio-Control Agent Against Colletotrichum capsici. Fungal Diseases of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and Their Biological Management. Broad Spectrum of Indian Peppermint Oil Against Disease Causing Human Bacterial Pathogens. Underexploited Vegetables in North Eastern India: A Gateway to Food Security. Essential Oil of Thymus saturejoides Coss. in the High Atlas of Morocco: From Traditional Medicine to Community Natural Product Development. Potent Nutrimental and Ethnomedicinal Horticultural Flora from North Central Terai Forests of U.P. India. Elemental Determination of Two Medicinal Plants of Mizoram Using EDXRF.