Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: An Overview of Date Palm Production -- Chapter 2: Tissue Culture Studies in Date Palm -- Chapter 3: The Date Palm Genome Project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 4: Water Management in Date Palm Groves -- Chapter 5: Fertilizer Application in Date Palm Cultivation -- Chapter 6: Environmental Concern in Date Palm Production from Atmospheric Trace Metal Contamination -- Chapter 7: Salinity Problems and Their Management in Date Palm Production -- Chapter 8: Date Palm Insect and Mite Pests and Their Management -- Chapter 9: Mechanization in Date Palm Pollination -- Chapter 10: Design Concepts for Date-Harvesting Process -- Chapter 11: Date Marketing -- Chapter 12: Drying Characteristics, Rehydration, and Color Changes of Palm Fruits during Storage -- Chapter 13: Solar Tunnel Dryer : A Novel Dryer for Dates -- Chapter 14: Processing of Dates by Dehydration and Microwave Drying -- Chapter 15: Quality Assessment of Dates by Computer Vision Technology -- Chapter 16: Nonchemical Methyl Bromide Alternatives in Dates' Processing Sector -- Chapter 17: Processing of Dates into Value-Added Products -- Chapter 18: Exploring the Possibility of Biofuel Production from By-Products and Wastes Generated from Date Industry -- Chapter 19: Physical Characteristics and Chemical Composition of Date Palm Fruits -- Chapter 20: Sorption and Structural Characteristics of Date Palm Fruit -- Chapter 21: Fermentative Products Using Dates as a Substrate -- Chapter 22: Dates as Potential Substitute for Added Sugar in Food -- Chapter 23: Use of Date Palm By-Products in Feeding Livestock -- Chapter 24: Dates : A Fruit from Heaven -- Chapter 25: The Functional Values of Dates -- Chapter 26: Nutritional and Medicinal Value of Date Fruit -- Chapter 27: Uses of Date Palm in Ayurveda.

Chapter 28: Dates in Indigenous Medicines of India -- Chapter 29: Antiamyloidogenic Effect of Dates Grown in Oman with Reference to Their Possible Protection against Alzheimer's Disease -- Back Cover.