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Title: Rubus spp., Blackberry

Author
item Finn, Chad

Submitted to: Encyclopedia of Fruits and Nuts
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/19/2007
Publication Date: 2/1/2008
Citation: Finn, C.E. 2008. Rubus spp., Blackberry. In: Janick, J. and Paull, R.E., editors. The Encylopedia of Fruits and Nuts. Cambridge, MA. CABI. p. 348-351.

Interpretive Summary: The Encylopedia of Fruit and Nuts is designed as a research reference source on temperate and tropical fruit and nut crops. Blackberries are distinguished from raspberries by whether the receptacle picks with the fruit (blackberries) or stays with the plant when picked (raspberries). The crop is discussed in terms of: HISTORICAL AND ORIGINS (including World Production and Uses), BOTANY (including Taxonomy and Nomenclature, Morphology, Reproductive Biology, and Ecology), HORTICULTURE (Propagation, Diseases and Pests, Main Cultivars and Breeding). Blackberries (Rubus spp.) are in the same genus as red raspberries, black raspberries, mora, cloudberry, arctic raspberry.

Technical Abstract: The Encylopedia of Fruit and Nuts is designed as a research reference source on temperate and tropical fruit and nut crops. Blackberries are distinguished from raspberries by whether the receptacle picks with the fruit (blackberries) or stays with the plant when picked (raspberries). The crop is discussed in terms of: HISTORICAL AND ORIGINS (including World Production and Uses), BOTANY (including Taxonomy and Nomenclature, Morphology, Reproductive Biology, and Ecology), HORTICULTURE (Propagation, Diseases and Pests, Main Cultivars and Breeding). Blackberries (Rubus spp.) are in the same genus as red raspberries, black raspberries, mora, cloudberry, arctic raspberry.