R.K. Maiti¹ , C.A. Kumari² , N.C.  Sarkar³

1. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Carr. Nac. No. 85 Km. 45, Linares, Nuevo Leon 67700, México
2. Plant Physiology, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Agricultural College, Polasa, Jagtial, Karimnagar 505 529, India
3. Department of ASEPAN, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, PO-Sriniketan, Birbhum (Dist), West Bengal 731 236, India
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International Journal of Horticulture, 2016, Vol. 6, No. 7   doi: 10.5376/ijh.2016.06.0007
Received: 30 Dec., 2015    Accepted: 12 Feb., 2016    Published: 08 Apr., 2016

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Maiti R.K., Kumari C.A., and Sarkar N.C., 2016, Contribution of research on vegetable crops, International Journal of Horticulture, 6(7): 1-3 (doi: 10.5376/ijh.2016.06.0007)

Vegetable crops have high economic value and high demand as they are the rich sources of vitamins, minerals and have high nutritional value for human health. The present paper gives a concise review of researches undertaken by R.K. Maiti and his team for more than a decade. The review paper considers comprehensive review on various aspects of vegetable crops starting from botany, physiology, biotechnology of major vegetable crops including pre-harvest and post-harvest technology, development of novel strategy and techniques for evaluation of crop cultivars for tolerance to abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought with highly satisfactory results in the farmer fields. The authors urge the necessity to evaluate and select vegetable crop cultivars for resistances to abiotic stresses under sustainable agriculture in the farmer fields.

Vegetable crops; Botany; Physiology; Abiotic stress; resistance; Genotypic variability; Development of novel techniques