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The book entitled “A Text Book of Fruit Crops: Mineral Nutrition and Physiological Disorders” is designed to address the recent advancement in nutrition of fruit crops. It is utmost important and necessary to increase the fruit production due to the burgeoning population across the world. Among the constraints, mineral nutrient deficiencies are the major problem in limiting the perennial fruit crop production. Understanding the principles of nutrients, diagnosis the hunger signs of nutrients, physiological disorders and management of these problems at right time are paramonent important in enhancing the fruit production. In this book, there are two aspects viz. plant nutrition and physiological disorders. In plant nutrition, there are 16 chapters and physiological disorders are elaborately discussed with remedial measures. Hence, this book covers the whole spectrum of nutrition of fruits and their remedial measures. The authors believe that this book will highly useful to the undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral students of both agriculture and horticulture. Besides, the book will fulfill the needs of the fruit growers, scientists, teachers and policy-makers and others concerned with fruit crops production.