The fruit production in the tropics offers a greater scope to modify a plant's flowering and fruiting cycles than in temperate areas. Changing the normal seasonal flowering cycle offers growers considerable economic advantages, by enhancing the ability to market tropical fruit in the off-season. A...

Taiwan's scientists have bred and released a number of fruit cultivars last decade, including papaya, Indian jujube, pineapple, wax apple, guava, mango, lychee, sugar apple pitaya and carambola. These new cultivars provide a richer choice of healthy products and better fruit quality that enrich the ...

The Philippines has more than 300 edible fruit and nut species but only a few are commercially cultivated. In terms of volume of production, banana, pineapple, and mango are the major fruits grown, followed by Citrus, papaya, jackfruit, and durian. Unlike major annual food crops like rice and...

The Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) was established in 1969 to conduct research and development on agriculture, excluding rubber, oil palm, and cocoa. Since the inception of MARDI three decades ago, the institute had bred many new fruit cultivars with commercial...

Many plants of horticultural interest are now propagated commercially by cuttings, since it is the easiest and most convenient method of vegetative propagation. Secondly, as the plants develop and grown on its own root system, the complex stock-scion relationship that exist in a graft can be...

Spain is the main EU producer of tropical and subtropical fruits and the only country on the continent itself currently capable of growing them. As consolidated crops, Spain produces avocados (over 10 000 ha planted, yielding some 70 000 t/year), bananas (production restricted to the Canary...

The tropical Americas produce a wide variety of fruits, many with very good quality characteristics. Most are consumed in the region where they are produced, and many are not well known in the markets of developing countries. In recent years consumers in developed countries have become increasingly ...

Tropical fruits play an important role in the economy of Queensland. The major crops are banana, mango, pineapple and papaya. For the past 20 years, biotechnology has been applied to tropical fruit species in Queensland. Micropropagation systems have been developed for banana, pineapple, papaya,...

Tropical fruit species are important worldwide and contribute to human nutrition, environmental protection and income generation. In the Asia, Pacific and Oceania region there are more than 400 tropical fruit species. However, many are subject to genetic erosion and their conservation is difficult...

Basic postharvest physiology of tropical fruit is similar to that of temperate fruit. The only clear physiological difference is that tropical fruit are chilling sensitive while most temperate fruit are chilling insensitive. Most of this knowledge was derived from work with banana, mango, pineapple ...