Olericulture is the branch of horticulture concerned with the science and practice of growing vegetables, focused on the cultivation of non-woody herbaceous food plants. It covers crop establishment, maintenance, storage, processing and marketing, including organic, hydroponic and biotechnological approaches to vegetable production. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Olericulture is the science of vegetable growing, dealing with the culture of non-woody (herbaceous) plants for food.
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Leonard M. Pike (February 1, 1940, January 12, 2019) was an American agricultural scientist who established the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University in 1992 and created the 1015 sweet onion and the BetaSweet maroon carrot.
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