Pomology

Pomology

Contents

• General part

1. What is the difference between fruits and vegetables?
2. What is pomology?
3. History of pomology
4. Minimum from areas needed to understand pomology
5. The importance of fruits to different societies
6. The importance of fruits in alimentation
7. Fruit world market
8. Gene centers of the most important fruits
9. What is a cultivated variety
10. Fruit plant breeding
11. Ways of propagations
12. Grafting
13. Shapes of trees and shrubs
14. Ways of fruit cultivating (orchards, plantations, intercropping, agroforestry planting)

• Theoretical part
  • Fruits of the temperate zone
  • Fruits of the subtropics
    1. Citruses
  • Fruits of the tropics
    1. Bananas
    2. Pineapples
    3. Papayas

• Practical examples

See also: Pomology Teaching Tools (a Wikiversity Project)