Meet the editor

Dalyse Toledo Castanheira has a BSc (2013), MSc (2015), and PhD in Agronomy (2018) from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA). She also completed a postdoctoral program at UFLA with a scholarship from the Coffee Research Consortium. She has experience with coffee crops, with emphasis on their sustainable management. Dr. Castanheira has worked on the study of agronomic techniques to optimize the use of water in order to

mitigate the effects of climatic variations on coffee culture. She is currently professor and researcher at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). She works in teaching, research, and technology transfer activities (with direct relationship with coffee growers) focusing on the sustainability of the coffee production system.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Coffee Crops

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

on Coffee Quality

*by Hemraj Sharma*

**Preface XI**

Biotechnology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Coffee Growing **23**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 45**

Harvest, Post-Harvest and Coffee Quality **57**

**Chapter 4 59**

Chemistry of Coffee **77**

**Chapter 5 79**

Observations on Somatic Embryogenesis in *Coffea arabica* L.

Soil Management and Water-Use Efficiency in Brazilian

*Laura Beatriz Batista de Melo, Walbert Junior Reis dos Santos, Thiago Henrique Pereira Reis, César Henrique Caputo de Oliveira* 

Soil Electrochemical and Physical Properties in Coffee Crops

The Harvest and Post-Harvest Management Practices' Impact

*João Henrique Vieira de Almeida Junior and Henrique Hiroki Yamada*

*by Cezar Francisco Araujo-Junior, Vinicius Cesar Sambatti,* 

*by Bruno Montoani Silva, Geraldo César de Oliveira, Milson Evaldo Serafim, Carla Eloize Carducci, Érika Andressa da Silva, Samara Martins Barbosa,* 

*by Julieta Andrea Silva de Almeida*

*and Paulo Tácito Gontijo Guimarães*

*by Mesfin Haile and Won Hee Kang*

A Detail Chemistry of Coffee and Its Analysis

in the State of Paraná, Brazil
