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Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These review articles, written by world authorities, bridge the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists and teachers.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contributorscontributors
Note
Dedication: Gregory L. Reighard
1 Pollination‐Induced Changes in the Morphology and Physiology of
Dendrobium
Orchid Flowers Prior to Fertilization: The Roles of Ethylene and Auxin
I. INTRODUCTION
II. ORCHID FLOWER STRUCTURE
III. POST‐POLLINATION EFFECTS IN ORCHIDS OTHER THAN DENDROBIUM
IV. ROLE OF HORMONES IN ORCHIDS OTHER THAN DENDROBIUM
V. POLLINATION IN DENDROBIUM
VI. VISIBLE POST‐POLLINATION EFFECTS IN
DENDROBIUM
VII. ROLE OF HORMONES IN THE VISIBLE POST‐POLLINATION PHENOMENA IN
DENDROBIUM
VIII. CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LITERATURE CITED
2
Actinidia arguta
(Kiwiberry): Botany, Production, Genetics, Nutritional Value, and Postharvest Handling
I. INTRODUCTION
II. BOTANY
III. CULTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT
IV. GENETICS AND BREEDING
V. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, NUTRITIONAL VALUE, AND HEALTH BENEFITS
VI. HARVESTING AND POSTHARVEST HANDLING
VII. UTILIZATION
VIII. CONCLUSIONS
LITERATURE CITED
3 Advances in Cassava‐Based Multiple‐Cropping Systems
I. INTRODUCTION
II. INTERCROPPING CASSAVA
III. CROP ROTATION INVOLVING CASSAVA
IV. CASSAVA‐BASED SEQUENTIAL/INTERCROPPING SYSTEMS INVOLVING PULSES AND/OR RICE
V. CASSAVA + PLANTATION CROPS
VI. PESTS AND DISEASES IN CASSAVA‐BASED INTERCROPPING
VII. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
LITERATURE CITED
4 Arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea
L.): Botany, Horticulture, and Uses
I. INTRODUCTION
II. OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION
III. BOTANY: TAXONOMY, MORPHOLOGY, AND GENETICS
IV. HORTICULTURAL ASPECTS
V. PROCESSING
VI. USES AND APPLICATIONS
VII. CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LITERATURE CITED
5 Jamun (Syzygium cumini L. Skeels): A Promising Fruit for the Future
I. INTRODUCTION
II. ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE
III. BOTANY, TAXONOMY, AND GENETICS
IV. CULTIVATION PRACTICES
V. NUTRITIONAL VALUE
VI. HEALTH‐PROMOTING EFFECTS
VII. POSTHARVEST PRACTICES
VIII. PROCESSING
IX. CONCLUSIONS
LITERATURE CITED
6 Coconut Micropropagation and Cryopreservation
I. INTRODUCTION
II.
IN VITRO
PROPAGATION TECHNOLOGY
III. BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGY
IV. CRYOPRESERVATION
V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
LITERATURE CITED
7 The Puzzling Phenomenon of Seedling Yellows Recovery and Natural Spread of Asymptomatic Infections of Citrus Tristeza Virus: Two Sides of the Same Coin
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE CTV GENOME AND BIOLOGY
III. A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE ISRAELI CTV SUPPRESSION PROGRAM (1970–1986)
IV. COMPARISONS OF SEVERE AND MILD CTV‐VT ISOLATES FROM SICILY
V. DISCUSSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LITERATURE CITED
8 Yield Alternation: Horticulture, Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Evolution
I. INTRODUCTION
II. MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF FLOWERING CONTROL IN MODEL PLANTS AND FRUIT TREES
III. EFFECT OF FRUIT LOAD ON CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION, PROTEIN, AND METABOLITE LEVELS IN LEAVES AND BUDS
IV. THE EFFECT OF FRUIT LOAD ON HORMONE HOMEOSTASIS
V. MITIGATION OF ALTERNATE BEARING
VI. DISCUSSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LITERATURE CITED
Note
Subject Index
Cumulative Subject Index
Cumulative Contributor Index
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List of Tables
Chapter 1
Table 1.1 Time (in days after pollination taking place, just after full flowe...
Table 1.2 Time to visible post‐pollination symptoms in
Dendrobium
‘Kenny' flow...
Table 1.3 Concentrations of ACC and unconjugated IAA in pollinia of various
De
...
Table 1.4 Ovary diameter of
Dendrobium
‘Pompadour' flowers with and without 0....
Table 1.5 Pollen germination and pollen tube growth, determined 7 days after ...
Chapter 2
Table 2.1 Recommended irrigation water parameterizations for analysis of irri...
Table 2.2 The most widely cultivated commercial female cultivars of
A. arguta
....
Table 2.3 Other named selections of
A. arguta
.
Table 2.4 A trait‐based product target template for the development of improv...
Table 2.5 Composition of vitamins in
A. arguta
fruit.
Table 2.6 Pigment composition of
A. arguta
fruit.
Table 2.7 Phenolic compounds in
A. arguta
fruit.
Table 2.8 Phenolic compounds identified in
A. arguta
fruit and leaves.
Table 2.9 Ranges of mineral nutrient concentrations in
A. arguta
fruit.
Table 2.10 Amino acids composition of
A. arguta
fruit.
Table 2.11
In vitro
antioxidant activity of
A. arguta
fruit extracts.
Chapter 4
Table 4.1 Phytochemical constituents of arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea
L.) rh...
Table 4.2 Physico‐chemical composition of arrowroot starch (
Maranta arundinac
...
Table 4.3 Technical‐functional properties of arrowroot starch (
Maranta arundi
...
Chapter 5
Table 5.1 Nutritional content of jamun fruit pulp.
Table 5.2 Contents of some phytochemicals in jamun fruit.
Table 5.3 Major anthocyanins, flavanonol, flavonol, and hydrolysable tannin c...
Chapter 6
Table 6.1
In vitro
culture techniques applied to coconut and results obtained.
Table 6.2 Y3 medium composition.
Table 6.3 Cryopreservation techniques applied to coconut and results obtained...
Chapter 7
Table 7.1 Nucleotides and amino acid modifications between CTV‐VT‐SY isolate ...
Chapter 8
Table 8.1 The most widely practiced methods for mitigation of alternate beari...
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1
Dendrobium appendiculatum
[syn.
Flickingeria appendiculata
(Blume...
Figure 1.2 Atypical flower morphology in the genus
Dendrobium
.
Dendrobium ch
...
Figure 1.3
Dendrobium cuthbertsonii
, showing its variability in flower color...
Figure 1.4 Morphology of pollinia (left) and magnified surface of pollen sho...
Figure 1.5 Post‐pollination symptoms in
Dendrobium
flowers. Flowers of ‘Kenn...
Figure 1.6 Color changes after pollination of
Dendrobium
‘Karen' flowers, no...
Figure 1.7 Ethylene production in non‐pollinated and pollinated
Dendrobium
‘...
Figure 1.8 Ethylene production by non‐pollinated
Dendrobium
‘Kenny' flowers ...
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 One‐year‐old shoots from a collection of genotypes of
A. arguta
. ...
Figure 2.2 Types of
A. arguta
summer shoots. (
Source
: Based on Latocha 2017....
Figure 2.3
Actinidia arguta
leaf morphological diversity. (
Source
: Photo cre...
Figure 2.4
Actinidia arguta
(left) male and (right) female flowers. (
Source
:...
Figure 2.5 A sample of
A. arguta
fruit morphological diversity. (
Source
: Pho...
Figure 2.6 Sensory profile of
A. arguta
fruit. (
Source
: Based on Latocha et ...
Figure 2.7 The main
A. arguta
phenological stages from budbreak to fruit set...
Figure 2.8 Kiwiberry vineyard, T‐bar system, Belgium. (
Source
: Photo credit:...
Figure 2.9 Kiwiberry vineyard, pergola system, Portugal. (
Source
: Photo cred...
Chapter 4
Figure 4.1 Center of origin and geographical distribution of
Maranta arundin
...
Figure 4.2 Morphological aspects of arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea
var.
comu
...
Figure 4.3 Variation in the pattern and shape of rhizomes in arrowroot (
Mara
...
Figure 4.4 Sections of the arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea
L.)
comum
accessio...
Figure 4.5 Variation of the pattern and shape of flowers in arrowroot access...
Figure 4.6 Dendrogram of the genetic similarity obtained from RAPD amplifica...
Figure 4.7 Comparison of the viscocity of arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea
L.)...
Figure 4.8 Shape and size of arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea
L.) starch granu...
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 Tree and flowers of jamun (
Syzygium cumini
(L.) Skeels).
Figure 5.2 Seedling production of jamun (
Syzygium cumini
(L.) Skeels).
Figure 5.3 High‐density planting of jamun trees (2.5 × 2.5 m) in India.
Figure 5.4 Range of fruit maturity within an inflorescence of jamun (
Syzygiu
...
Figure 5.5 Jamun (
Syzygium cumini
(L.) Skeels) fruit at successive stages of...
Figure 5.6 Longitudinal section of fruit and seed of jamun (
Syzygium cumini
...
Figure 5.7 Traditional harvesting method for jamun fruit.
Figure 5.8 Basket for jamun fruit made from woven strips of date leaves.
Chapter 7
Figure 7.1 Reinvigoration of a ‘Tarocco' orange tree, two years after severe...
Figure 7.2 Symptoms induced on different hosts by the VT‐SY isolate SG29, pr...
Figure 7.3 Severe stunting and root rot of sour orange seedlings (a) inocula...
Figure 7.4 ‘Tarocco' (upper photos) and ‘Moro' (lower photos) orange trees g...
Chapter 8
Figure 8.1 Flowering control pathways in
Arabidopsis
. Major genes associated...
Figure 8.2 Genes associated with putative flowering‐control pathways in frui...
Figure 8.3 The implementation of the auxin transport autoinhibition (ATA) th...
Figure 8.4 An example of strong, consistent alternate bearing. Alternate bea...
Figure 8.5 Critical fruit load for regular bearing. Linear Pearson correlati...
Figure 8.6 Regional patterns of synchrony. Normalized first differences of a...
Figure 8.7 Tree collapse by fruit overload. Complete tree collapse in ‘Kinno...
Figure 8.8 The fruit overload syndrome. A scheme summarizing one possible me...
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Contributors
Moshe Bar‐Joseph, The S. Tolkowsky Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel
Vitor Brito, Departamento de Produção e Gestão Agroindustrial, Universidade para o Desenvolvimento do Estado e Região do Pantanal (UNIDERP), Campo Grande, Brazil
Antonino F. Catara, Science and Technology Park of Sicily, Catania, Italy (Present address: Agrobiotech Soc. Coop., Catania, Italy)
Marney Cereda, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Reginaldo Costa, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Abdolmajid Mirzaalian Dastjerdy, Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Filip Debersaques, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Valentin Vaerwyckweg 1, B‐9000 Ghent, Belgium
André Fattori, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Ksenija Gasic, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
John B. Golding, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Gosford, NSW, Australia
Eliezer E. Goldschmidt, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 761000 Israel
Shokrollah Hajivand, Horticultural Research Institute, AREEO, Karaj, Iran
Iago Hale, Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Nathalia Joffer, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Saichol Ketsa, Department of Horticulture, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand and Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand, Dusit, Bangkok 10300, Thailand
Piotr Latocha, Department of Environmental Protection and Dendrology, Faculty of Horticulture and Biotechnology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska str 166, 02‐787 Warsaw, Poland
Ana S. Lédo, Embrapa Tabuleiros Costeiros, Aracaju, SE, Brazil
Grazia Licciardello, Agrobiotech Soc. Coop., Catania, Italy (Present address: Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Olive, Citrus and Fruit Trees (CREA‐OFA), Rende (Cosenza), Italy)
Josemar Maciel, Departmento de Desenvolvimento Local, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Babak Madani, Horticultural Crops Research Department, Natural Resources Research and Education Center of Hormozgan, AREEO, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Juan Carlos Melgar, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Amin Mirshekari, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Yasouj, Yasouj, Iran
Sanket J. More, ICAR – Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Jeniffer Narcisa‐Oliveira, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Renata Nascimento, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Carina Oliveira, Departmento de Ciências Ambientais e Sustentabilidade Agropecuária, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
V. Ravi, ICAR – Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Avi Sadka, Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, The Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, 7528809 Israel
R. Saravanan, ICAR – Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, India
G. Suja, ICAR – Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Lorene Tiburtino‐Silva, Departmento de Desenvolvimento Local, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB), Campo Grande, Brazil
Wouter G. van Doorn,† Mann Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Wagner A. Vendrame, Environmental Horticulture Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Ian J. Warrington, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Elhadi M. Yahia, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autonoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
Note
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Deceased.
Dedication: Gregory L. Reighard
This volume of Horticultural Reviews is dedicated to Dr Gregory L. Reighard, Professor Emeritus at Clemson University, for his contributions to horticulture and horticultural research, especially in areas relating to fruit production.
Dr Reighard was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the midst of a rural coal‐mining area. He lived next to his grandparents who had a small mountain farm near South Fork, Pennsylvania, where he helped with farm chores and developed an interest in growing fruits and vegetables. He also spent a lot of time in the mountain forests hunting and foraging, so he developed a love for trees. He was the first in his wider family to go to college and attended Pennsylvania State University, attaining his B.S. in Forestry in 1977. He completed his M.S. in Biology at the University of Michigan in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Forestry at Michigan State University in 1984. After working in forest management in Montana and Florida, he decided that he did not want to “harvest” trees as his legacy, but instead nurture and improve them for what fruits or nuts they could provide. After graduation and working at the University of Florida as a research associate, he applied and interviewed for a tree fruit (pomology) position in the Department of Horticulture at Clemson, where he subsequently spent his entire professional career as a faculty member in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences, with research, extension, and teaching appointments. In 2017, he served as Interim Chair of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. At this institution, he has demonstrated excellence in scholarship, and dedication to the discipline of pomology and to the commercial tree fruit industry.
Dr Vance Baird, Chair of the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University, has observed that “you know someone has been well‐educated and possesses adaptable insight when he can take two degrees in Forestry and one in Biology and translate that into one of the most successful careers in tree fruit physiology and germplasm improvement – and developed a career that has evolved with the state‐of‐the‐science and with commercial production needs.”
Dr Reighard's accomplishments in pomology are impressive, especially as they span the range from applied, field‐based work to the fundamentals of molecular biology. His research interests include the study of physiological phenomena of genetically compound fruit trees in terms of effects of rootstocks, interstems, and cultural practices on vegetative growth, fruiting, frost protection, nutrition, disease resistance, and cold injury. Additional research has involved developing new rootstocks that are resistant to nematodes, determining how interstems and growth hormones affect root growth and scion phenology, developing flower bud thinning techniques, and finding molecular markers for traits such as nematode resistance and dormancy control for use in applied breeding programs.
One of his greatest accomplishments came about through his commitment to the performance evaluation and genetic analysis of rootstocks that could provide tolerance to the peach tree short life (PTSL) disease complex. His insight and perseverance, and his collaboration with colleagues at the USDA, resulted in the identification, selection, development, and commercialization of the Guardian® peach rootstock, which provided the industry with a rootstock choice that protected trees from PTSL. This was an outstanding contribution at a critical time when the industry was losing traditional chemical control options. It allowed the peach industry in the southeastern United States to thrive by improving the long‐term sustainability and profitability of many farms. Today, at least 90% of all commercial peaches newly planted in the southeastern United States are planted on Guardian® rootstock. Furthermore, Guardian® rootstock is having a similarly positive impact on peach production in other major stone fruit–producing areas around the world, including California, South Africa, and Australia.
Chalmers R. Carr III, President and CEO of Titan Farms, a 2000 ha peach operation, states, “The southern peach industry, most especially the South Carolina peach industry, second only to California in peach production, was truly headed toward extinction due to PTSL disease. Research by Dr Reighard and colleagues that was dedicated to developing and releasing the Guardian® rootstock not only stopped the dwindling spiral of peach production in the southeast but has allowed the industry to thrive and flourish.”
Other than the development of Guardian®, Dr Reighard's program has also been very successful in achieving an improved understanding of crop load management, harvest modeling, tree habit, bud dormancy, and structural and comparative genomics, not just in peach but also in other important fruit crops such as apple, apricot, pear, and plum. His enthusiasm to collect and evaluate various germplasm for its potential to serve as Prunus rootstocks was very fortunate, as the stone fruit industry in the United States is facing yet another extinction‐threatening soil pathogen, Armillaria spp. Germplasm he collected and maintained at Clemson University is showing tolerance, and it is already being evaluated for its rootstock potential (www.nc140.org) and used in breeding efforts to combat this replant disease.
His research program quickly incorporated the newly emerging prospects made available from molecular plant genetics, an emerging science in the 1980s. Working closely with Dr Bert Abbott, his graduate students and postdoctoral colleagues were some of the first to find genes for nematode resistance in Prunus and the evg mutant that was important in identifying the MAD Box genes that control shoot growth and bud dormancy in peach. In addition, the first sequenced peach genome was from a double haploid tree that he had planted at the university research farm.
His extension emphasis is fueled by his passion for growers' success and is based on disseminating current information on orchard management systems for peaches and apples, communicating the relevance of his research findings to commercial growers, and establishing cultivar trials to promote alternative fruit crops for fruit grower diversification. His trials are extensive, often located on commercial properties to achieve the scale necessary for grower acceptance and for their adoption of the findings from that research.
Although teaching and advising have been a small part of his appointment, he has advised 17 M.S. and Ph.D. students to completion. Furthermore, more than 120 undergraduate students have been involved in the projects within his research program. Dr Reighard has also hosted 13 visiting postdoctoral scholars and scientists on sabbatical leave from the United States, China, Turkey, Spain, France, Ukraine, South Africa, and Brazil.
Dr Reighard has an extensive list of over 170 peer‐reviewed research publications, and nearly 200 additional outputs in the form of conference proceedings and book chapters, including two chapters in the major text The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses, one in Almonds: Botany, Production and Uses, and one in a Fruit Breeding series. He has given more than 500 presentations, including 170 invited presentations.
Greg has been highly active within the International Society for Horticultural Science for many years. He has published over 90 papers in Acta Horticulturae, served as an editor or on the editorial board for six symposia, served on the scientific committee for seven symposia, and was the convenor for one other symposium.
Dr Reighard has served on many committees in regional, national, and international symposia. He serves as the Peach Rootstock Coordinator for the SAES‐422 Multistate Project NC‐140, “Improving Economic and Environmental Sustainability in Tree‐Fruit Production through Changes in Rootstock Use”; is an honorary member of the Romanian Faculty Academic Council; and has been a reviewer for more than 20 different scientific journals.
Dr Reighard has been recognized numerous times throughout his career with professional awards, including the Wilder Medal by the American Pomological Society for his work in peach tree genetics and culture (2018), his election as a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science (2014), the International Fruit Tree Association Fruit Researcher Award (2012), the American Pomological Society Shepard Award for the best scientific paper published in the Society's journal (in 2017, 2010, and 2004), the American Society for Horticultural Science – Southern Region Julian C. Miller Sr. Distinguished Research Award (2008), and the Godley‐Snell Award for Excellence in Agricultural Research (2008).
In regard to his extension appointment, he has prepared and published numerous extension and outreach publications, including handbooks, trade journals, magazines, newsletters, and popular press articles. Other than this, he has also organized and hosted many field days and demonstration tours for fruit tree growers.
His industry‐related achievements have been recognized with a number of awards, including the South Carolina Peach Council's “Mr. Peach” Award (2017), the Experiment Station Section Excellence in Multistate Research Award (2015), the Clemson University CAFLS Superior Service Award (2014), the National Peach Council Career Achievement Award (2013), the National Peach Council Carroll R. Miller Award (2002), and the Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence (in 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2011).
Greg is married to Angie (1980), and they have two children: Chelsea Reighard, M.D. (Ophthalmology), and Shane Reighard, M.D. (Cardiology).
In summary, Dr Greg Reighard's professional career is one of exemplary and sustained dedication to tree fruit improvement, which has resulted in high‐quality scholarship for the discipline of horticulture, and relevant and impactful deliverables for the industry – domestically and abroad.
JUAN CARLOS MELGAR
KSENIJA GASIC
IAN WARRINGTON
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Emeritus Professor
Clemson University
Clemson University
Massey University
Clemson, SC
Clemson, SC
Palmerston North
United States
United States
New Zealand
