Today, much emphasis is given on practical training to agriculture students but no serious attempts have been made for strengthening this aspect of education. Very few manuals are available to the students and scientists working on various aspects of agriculture. Keeping this fact in view, the authors feels the necessity of bringing out a concise and precise manual on "Analytical Techniques In Horticulture". It is hoped that manual will help the graduate and post-graduate students of horticulture, plant physiology, biochemistry, soils and scientists working in these disciplines, in addition to its usefulness to the food processing industries and quality control laboratories.

Although there are a few books on this subject, one has to study a number of original papers to get at the actual methodology. An attempt has been made to provide methods required for estimation of various biochemical and physiological constituents and mineral nutrients in fruits, vegetables, plant parts, soil and processed foods at one place.

The present manual is aimed at filling upon the important gaps between theory and practice. Part-I of the manual deals with the analytical techniques for bio-chemical constituents and physiological parameters and Part-II with the analytical procedures for processed foods. Part-Ill of the present manual deals with handling of some common laboratory instruments, Part-IV with the estimation of mineral elements in soil, plant parts and processed fruit and vegetable products and Part-V with the use of chromatography for separation and identification of various bio-chemical constituents.