Böcker av Dilip Kumar Sharma

The onion is an important vegetable crop grown worldwide including India. This book is classified into 11 chapters viz. introduction of the crop, description of the plant, nutritional compositions, area and production, culture practices, phytochemicals, and bioactive compounds; nutraceuticals, biological properties, ethnobotanical and domestic uses, post-harvest handling and effects of various factors on bioactive, post-harvest diseases and their management, and future perspectives. Diseases, their symptoms, and control measures discussed to combat plant diseases include post-harvest storage and eco-friendly methods of disease control. The book will be helpful to students, research scholars, technicians, and scientists working in various fields of crop production. The book is efficiently written so that the content can be easily understood. The literature was added using articles published in the last more than 50 years from various sources with the latest references.