The book has been designed with the main consideration to serve a dual purpose of being a text and a reference. The entire book contains 12 pertinent topics including: Bud dormancy, Chilling requirement in fruit crops, Heat units and thermoperiodism in fruit crops, Physiology of flowering in horticultural crops, Fruit growth and development; Unfruitfulness in fruit crops - causes and control measures, Alternate bearing in fruit plants - causes and management, Parthenocarpy - a mechanism for seedlessness, Graft incompatibility - Causes and remedial measures, Physiology of dwarfism in fruit plants, Fruit Ripening -Biochemistry, physiology and regulation, and Abscission in fruit plant.

By WS Dhillon and ZA Bhat