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Contributors. <p>Dedication: Donald N. Maynard (Allen V. Barker).</p> <p><b>1. The Global Flower Bulb Industry: Production, Utilization, Research</b> (<i>Maarten Benschop, Rina Kamenetsky, Marcel Le Nard, Hiroshi Okubo, and August De Hertogh</i>).</p> <p>I. Introduction.</p> <p>II. Historical Perspectives.</p> <p>III. Globalization of the World Flower Bulb Industry 7</p> <p>IV. Major Areas of Research.</p> <p>V. Major Flower Bulb Organizations.</p> <p>VI. Conclusions and Future Research.</p> <p>Acknowledgments.</p> <p>Literature Cited</p> <p><b>2. The Bananas: Botany, Origin, Dispersal</b> (<i>N. M. Nayar</i>).</p> <p>I. Introduction.</p> <p>II. Botany.</p> <p>III. Origin and Evolution.</p> <p>IV. Dispersal.</p> <p>V. Summary and Inferences.</p> <p>Acknowledgments.</p> <p>Literature Cited.</p> <p><b>3. Genetic Diversity of</b> <b>Cucumis Melo</b> (<i>Yosef Burger, Harry S. Paris, Ron Cohen, Nurit Katzir, Yaakov Tadmor, Efraim Lewinsohn, and Arthur A. Schaffer</i>).</p> <p>I. Introduction.</p> <p>II. Origin and Domestication.</p> <p>III. Historical Records.</p> <p>IV. Classification.</p> <p>V. Molecular Polymorphism.</p> <p>VI. Variability in Fruit Characteristics.</p> <p>VII. Variation in Response to Diseases.</p> <p>VIII. Prospects.</p> <p>Acknowledgments.</p> <p>Literature Cited.</p> <p><b>4. Dogroses: Botany, Horticulture, Genetics, and Breeding</b> (<i>Gun Werlemark and Hilde Nybom</i>).</p> <p>I. Introduction.</p> <p>II. Taxonomy.</p> <p>III. Utilization.</p> <p>IV. Production.</p> <p>V. Genetics and Breeding.</p> <p>VI. Summary.</p> <p>Literature Cited.</p> <p><b>5. Biochemical and Practical Views of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus-Host Association in Horticultural Crops</b> (<i>Hinanit Koltai, Vijay Gadkar, and Yoram Kapulnik</i>).</p> <p>I. Introduction.</p> <p>II. Life Cycle of AM Fungi.</p> <p>III. Chemical Analyses of the Presymbiotic Stage of the AMF-Host Interaction.</p> <p>IV. Molecular Analyses of the Presymbiotic Phase of the AMF-Host Interaction.</p> <p>V. Application of AMF in Horticultural Crops.</p> <p>VI. Conclusions.</p> <p>Literature Cited.</p> <p><b>6. Sustainability of Organic Horticulture</b> (<i>Michael Raviv</i>).</p> <p>Abbreviations.</p> <p>I. Defining Sustainability.</p> <p>II. Organic Horticulture.</p> <p>III. How Sustainable is Organic Horticulture?</p> <p>IV. Knowledge Gaps and Required Future Research.</p> <p>V. Conclusions.</p> <p>Literature Cited.</p> <p>Subject Index.</p> <p>Cumulative Subject Index.</p> <p>Cumulative Contributor Index.</p>

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

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