"Sweet cherries are a speciality crop, subject to significant production risk for growers, yet with high potential returns due to strong consumer demand. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the history, genetic improvements, production, physiology of growth and cropping, orchard establishment and management, and harvesting for sustainable cherry production"--.

• Cover
• Sweet Cherries: Crop Production Science In Horticulture
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Trends in Sweet Cherry Production
• 2 Cherry Flowering, Fruiting and Cultivars
• 3 Sweet Cherry Rootstocks
• 4 Planning a New Cherry Orchard
• 5 Orchard Establishment and Production
• 6 Sweet Cherry Pruning Fundamentals
• 7 Sweet Cherry Training Systems
• 8 Managing the Orchard Environment
• 9 Fruit Ripening and Harvest
• 10 Managing Orchard Pests
• 11 Managing Orchard Pathogens and Disorders
• 12 The Future of Cherry Production
• Index
• Cover_Back