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Introduction to the Rubus Genus

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Rubus crops, particularly red raspberry and blackberries, have seen a significant increase in consumer demand, while at the same time facing considerable challenges in cultivation. These include biotic and abiotic stresses made worse due to increased legislation and reduced actives, at a time of rapidly changing climatic conditions. This chapter gives an outline to these crops and of the contents of the volume. This includes the taxonomy, biology and growth as well as the genetic and genomic resources, health aspects and breeding and other tools available for future crop development.

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Graham, J., Brennan, R. (2018). Introduction to the Rubus Genus. In: Graham, J., Brennan, R. (eds) Raspberry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99031-6_1

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