The production of bananas and other tropical fruit crops in the subtropics is highly influenced by climate. In the case of bananas, climate causes undesirable physiological phenomena and long cropping cycles, despite which yields obtained in the subtropics can be excellent. True tropical fruits...

Pruning, drought stress, and plant growth regulators (PGR) have been utilized to promote off-season flowering with varying success in tropical fruit production. However, removing an existent crop to promote off-season fruit production is not a common cultural practice. Pruning may involve removal...

Global climate change has tended to increase its impact on the tropical fruit industry in South China. Big fluctuation in temperature, rainfall, more frequent occurrence of drought and sever typhoons are characteristic symptoms of apparent impacts in the area from the global climate change. A...

Yields of fruit tree crops are determined primarily by flowering intensity and subsequent fruit set from those flowers. The processes related to flowering and fruit set are discussed in this mini-review particularly for tropical-subtropical behaviour of citrus with some references to subtropical ...

Three-year-old grafted calamondin (Citrus microcarpa Bunge) potted plants and 10-year-old kumquat (Fortunella margarita) trees were heavy pruning monthly to study their growth and flowering behavior. Heavy pruning kumquat and calamondin could induced vegetative growth of the first flush after...

This proceedings contains 54 papers dealing with cultivation and production of citrus, bananas and other tropical fruits in the subtropics. Topics discussed include the effects of climate change, different substrates, thinning, girdling, heavy pruning, fertilizer application, irrigation and water...

High quality tropical fruits, when exported to distant markets, are limited by their postharvest characteristics. These include limited supplies, irregular quality of many of the minor fruit crops, chilling sensitivity, insect disinfestation treatments, shipping and storage duration, and lack of...

Mangosteen is one of the most delicious and best flavored tropical fruits, known as the queen of fruits. Its edible portion is only one third of the whole fruit and the rest is rind. The mangosteen rind contains polyphenolic compounds known as xanthones, which provide a powerful antioxidant...

Pitaya Hylocereus undatus (Haw) or dragon fruit, has been introduced to Thailand only recently but today it is popular and is found on the shelf nearly all year round. Very little has been published on fertilization of this plant especially when it is grown in clayey soil. This experiment was...

Banana is not only consumed fresh but also processed as flour for food industry application. Previously, banana flour has been successfully used to form biodegradable edible sheets by compression molding, showing possible application as an environmentally friendly packaging material. However, there ...