India is the second largest producer of fruits with an annual production of 88.
81 MT.
The scenario of horticultural crops in India has become very encouraging.
The percentage share of horticultural output in agriculture is very promising.
However, our country still lag behind in the productivity of the majority of fruit crops which is a challenge to research workers in the view of the continuously increasing population.
There are several reasons; primarily the lack of knowledge about the basic physiology of the crop which appears to be a fundamental reason for low productivity.
Crop physiology is governed by changing climatic conditions in today�s scenario.
Be it a student or horticulturist or researcher, he must be well versed with the basic plant metabolic processes to combat the biotic and abiotic stresses.
The genesis of the idea led me inculcated the writing of this book, which would be of great help to students, researchers and horticulturists to gain an accurate and deep understanding about growth and development processes as well as phenomena regarding physiology of fruit crops.
The various aspects if properly integrated with fruit science will augment the production system.
This book contains twenty six chapters encompassing a spectrum of topics such as growth and development, plant growth hormones, floral initiation and induction, fruit drop, source-sink relationship in fruit trees, photoperiodism, physiological disorders, climacteric and non-climacteric fruits, growth analysis indices, vernalization, environmental impact on growth and development.

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