Horticultural Reviews, Volume 36

Jules Janick is the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA.

• Contributors ixDedication: Donald N. Maynard xiiiAllen V. Barker1. The Global Flower Bulb Industry: Production, Utilization, Research 1Maarten Benschop, Rina Kamenetsky, Marcel Le Nard, Hiroshi Okubo, and August De HertoghI. Introduction 3Ii. Historical Perspectives 4Iii. Globalization of the World Flower Bulb Industry 7Iv. Major Areas of Research 14V. Major Flower Bulb Organizations 55Vi. Conclusions and Future Research 80Acknowledgments 88Literature Cited 882. The Bananas: Botany, Origin, Dispersal 117N. M. NayarI. Introduction 118Ii. Botany 119Iii. Origin and Evolution 138Iv. Dispersal 146V. Summary and Inferences 154Acknowledgments 157Literature Cited 1573. Genetic Diversity of Cucumis Melo 165Yosef Burger, Harry S. Paris, Ron Cohen, Nurit Katzir, Yaakov Tadmor, Efraim Lewinsohn, and Arthur A. SchafferI. Introduction 166Ii. Origin and Domestication 166Iii. Historical Records 166Iv. Classification 169V. Molecular Polymorphism 172Vi. Variability in Fruit Characteristics 175Vii. Variation in Response to Diseases 185Viii. Prospects 190Acknowledgments 190Literature Cited 1914. Dogroses: Botany, Horticulture, Genetics, and Breeding 199Gun Werlemark and Hilde NybomI. Introduction 200Ii. Taxonomy 201Iii. Utilization 205Iv. Production 214V. Genetics and Breeding 225Vi. Summary 244Literature Cited 2455. Biochemical and Practical Views of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus-Host Association in Horticultural Crops 257Hinanit Koltai, Vijay Gadkar, and Yoram KapulnikI. Introduction 258Ii. Life Cycle of AM Fungi 261Iii. Chemical Analyses of the Presymbiotic Stage of the AMF-Host Interaction 264Iv. Molecular Analyses of the Presymbiotic Phase of the AMF-Host Interaction 267V. Application of AMF in Horticultural Crops 270Vi. Conclusions 276Literature Cited 2786. Sustainability of Organic Horticulture 289Michael RavivAbbreviations 289I. Defining Sustainability 290Ii. Organic Horticulture 291Iii. How Sustainable is Organic Horticulture? 294Iv. Knowledge Gaps and Required Future Research 314V. Conclusions 317Literature Cited 320Subject Index 335Cumulative Subject Index 337Cumulative Contributor Index 365