This volume, the latest in CABI's ‘Crop Production Science in Horticulture Series’, addresses the blueberry as a crop in all – or at least, most of its diversity, including southern and northern highbush, half-high types from Minnesota, and rabbiteyes initially from Georgia and North Carolina. The book is timely, with global interest in blueberry currently at an all-time high and new plantings across much of Europe as consumer demand grows.

The nine chapters give a comprehensive overview of blueberries from breeding through to growing and post-harvest storage. They cover respectively the global blueberry industry, taxonomy and breeding, growth and development, light and yield, nutrition, field management and harvesting (including water management), growth regulators, pests and diseases, and fruit quality.

The breeding chapter includes descriptions of virtually every commercially grown blueberry cultivar, and the other chapters cover between them the most important aspects of crop management and production. There is a list of references at the end of each chapter for readers wanting to know more. As one might expect, the book is strongly focused on American (north and south) production, but the rapidly escalating interest in blueberry in Europe, the Pacific Rim and China is also considered.

This book is intended to occupy a similar place to Paul Eck's Blueberry Science, published in 1988, as the authors themselves state in the Introduction. In that aim they have been largely successful: The book is an excellent and highly readable addition to the blueberry literature, and while the price is slightly high for a soft-cover edition with no photographic plates, a wide readership, including researchers, advisors and growers, will derive considerable value from this book.