This book covers the biotechnology of all major fruit and nut species, with colour illustrations illustrating the crop species and their wild relatives. It details well-established techniques such as protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis and ploidy manipulation, but also newer approaches such as genomics and marker-assisted selection.

Contributions by: Stephen W Adkins, Nuria Alburquerque, Maria Luisa Badenes, Luciana Baldoni, Araceli Barceló-Muñoz, Pedro M. Barros, A.T. Basford, Muhammad Ajmal Bashir, Diego Silva Batista, Julianne Biddle, Manuel Blasco, J. R. Botella, Patrick Brown, Lorenzo Burgos, John E. Carlson, Luis A. Cañas, Elisabeth Carmona, David Chagné, Rekha Chaudhury, Elisabeth Chevreau, V. E. Chhatre, Yelda Özden Çiftçi, C. Claflin, Yuval Cohen, Elena Corredoira, Valerio Cristofori, Niccolò Cultrera, Abhaya Dandekar, Maurecilne Lemes da Silva, Sadanand A. Dhekney, Leo D’Souza, Ofere Francis Emeriewen, Kate Evans, M. Faize, Fábio Gelape Faleiro, Ana Paula Farinha, Vicente Febres, Yolanda Ferradás, Antonio Figueira, Maureen M.M. Fitch, Henryk Flachowsky, M. Foale, Svetlana Y. Folimonova, María Victoria González, Isabel María González-Padilla, Julie Graham, Dennis J. Gray, Magda-Viola Hanke, Smitha Hegde, Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Uma Jaiswal, Nikki Jennings, Hülya Akdemir Koç, Ossama Kodad, Nerea Larrañaga, Chuck Leslie, Z.J. Li, Amanda de Santana Lopes, Carlos López-Encina, Rodolfo López-Gómez, Jorge Lora, Zheng-Rong Luo, S.K. Malik, Roberto Mariotti, Óscar Martínez, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Antonio J. Matas, Maria Olívia Mercadante-Simões, José A Mercado, Scott A Merkle, Sara Montanari, Gloria Moore, Soraya Mousavi, Isabel Narváez, María del Mar Naval, Q. T. Nguyen, Shashikiran Nivas, M. Margarida Oliveira, Ahmet Onay, Wagner Campos Otoni, Túlio Gomes Pacheco, Guillermo Padilla, Elena Palomo-Ríos, Andreas Peil, Leandro Pena, Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente, Cesar Petri, Paula M. Pijut, Marcos Vinícius Marques Pinheiro, Clara Pliego, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro, Simon H.T. Raharjo, Manoj K Rai, Manuel Rey, Leonardo Monteiro Ribeiro, Gabino Ríos, Alain Rival, Diego Ismael Rocha, Marcelo Rogalski, M. B. Rosenberg, M. Rouard, Nicolas Roux, Eddo Rugini, D. Ruiz, J. Sardos, Danielle Camargo Scotton, S.K. Sessions, Cristian Silvestri, Michael K Smith, Wellington Santos Soares, Guo-Qing Song, Veysel Süzerer, Alicia Talavera, Ryutaro Tao, Takuya Tetsumura, Engin Tilkat, Pablo Ric Varas, Wagner Vendrame, Francisco Javier Viéitez, Lyderson Facio Viccini, Hazel Wetzstein, Roxana Yockteng, Qing-Lin Zhang