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The book 'The varieties of citrus' collects the history of the citricultura and more than 140 fichas varietales
03/05/2012
3 May 2012
The Ministry of Agriculture, Feeding and Environingingment has published the book “The varieties of citrus fruit. The vegetal material and the register of commercial varieties in Spain”, in which it analyses the past and present of this crop frutal “that has almost 100 producing countries and 6 million hectares planted, the half of which devoted to the naranjo” as it explains in his introduction.
This publication, coordinated by the engineer agronomist Pedro Miguel Chomé, collects in his first part the history of the citricultura in the world analysing his geographic origin, his world-wide distribution, as well as the antecedents and current situation of the citricultura Spanish, his aprovechamientos, and the conservation of the genotypes in the bank of gerrmoplasma Spanish. Next they tackle the technicians of vivero, the vegetal material and his health, as well as the system of official certification.
The publication includes also 143 fichas, each one of them to double page, in which they detail the technical descriptions of 68 varieties of mandarinas, 41 of oranges, 14 of lemons, 11 of grapefruit and 9 of naranjos trifoliados. These fichas illustrate with photographies of the tree, leaves, flowers and fruit so much in branch like open.
