This book provides a comprehensive review of fig growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing, health, and industrial uses.

Contributions by: Mohammad Abdolahipour, Fateh Aljane, Azam Amiri, Maria L Amodio, Francisco C Balas, Patrick Brown, Zeinab Bolboli, Anshul Chawla, Pasqualina Colasuonno, Giancarlo Colelli, Neda Dalir, Naser Davatgar, Birgül Ertan, Engin Ertan, Louise Ferguson, Giuseppe Ferrara, Badii Gaaliche, Ana I Galván, A.J Galán, Carlos A. Alonso Garza, Jan H. Giliomee, Phoebe Gordon, Matthew J. Grieshop, G Dalkiliç Günver, Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Akihiro Hosomi, Hidetoshi Ikegami, Ali Akbar Kamgar-Haghighi, Finn Kjellberg, Moslem Jafari, Zhihong Li, Margarita López Corrales, Mahshad Maghoumi, Giuseppe E Massimino Cocuzza, Chabane Mazri, Andrea Mazzeo, Themis J. Michailides, Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa, Diganta Narzary, Mohamed H Neily, Hitoshi Nogata, A Aytekin Polat, Asghar Ramezanian, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Maria G.F. Rodrigues, Sead Sabanadzovic, Rajwinder K. Sandhu, Manuel Joaquín Serradilla Sánchez, Zeinab Shokoohi, Federica Spagnoli, Vassilio Stournaras, Mohammad H. Tarazkar, Ioannis Tzanetakis, Simon van Noort, Alimohammad Yavari, Hiroshi Yakushiji, Yue Zhang, Megan Crivelli, Tatjana K Kokaj, Souhila Mahmoudi, Ilaria Marcotuli