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Detailed profiles for each of the major vegetables provide users with practical, in-depth knowledge about growing, harvesting, and processing seed for a wide range of common and specialty vegetable crops, from Asian greens to zucchini. In addition, readers will find extensive and critical information on topics including: - The reproductive biology of crop plants - Annual vs. biennial seed crops - Isolation distances needed to ensure varietal purity - Maintaining adequate population size for genetic integrity - Seed crop climates - Seed-borne diseases - Seed-cleaning basics - Seed storage for farmers - and more . . . This book can serve as a bridge to lead skilled gardeners, who are already saving their own seed, into the idea of growing seed commercially. And for diversified vegetable farmers who are growing a seed crop for sale for the first time, it will provide details on many of the tricks of the trade that are used by professional seed growers. 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