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"This book provides a comprehensive review of fig research, both basics and applications. It addresses the recent scientific results in genetics, genomics, metabolomics, pharmaceutical properties, understanding of symbiosis, new management, post-harvest technology and diseases and pest management of figs"--.

• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Fig: from History and Tradition to Scientifc Research
• Remains of the Common Fig (
• L.) in the Archaeological Record and Domestication Processes
• Figs in History and Art
• Fig Morphology and Development
• Wasp Mutualism with a Special Emphasis on
• Fig Propagation
• Fig Orchard Establishment
• Soil Management, Fertilization, and Irrigation
• Horticultural Practices under Various Climatic Conditions
• Sustainable Farming Systems and Organic Fig Production
• Robotics and Remote Sensing in Orchards
• Fig-fruit Ripening and Maturation
• Harvest and Postharvest Physiology and Technology of Fresh Fig Fruit
• Postharvest Handling of Dried Fig Fruit
• Pests of Fig Trees
• Fig Pathogens: Viruses, Viroids, and Phytoplasmas
• Fig Diseases
• Postharvest Pests of Dried Figs
• Mycotoxins in Fig
• Fig Genetics, Genomics, and Transcriptomics
• Fig Flavor
• The Role of Fig in Human Nutrition
• Fig Varieties
• Conventional and Molecular Breeding in Fig
• Fig Products from Tradition to Future
• Traditional Ethnomedicinal Usage of
• World Fig Production and Trade
• Fig Marketing Strategies
• Conclusions and Future Research
• Index