This small book concerns the potential cultivation of small tropical fruits in Africa for export. Topics covered include fruit quality, climate and soils, site factors, cultural methods, phytosanitary restrictions of importing countries, transport, storage and European Union import statistics for...

This whole issue is devoted to a detailed review of the work on tropical fruits (mango, pawpaw, guava, cashew, mangosteen and rambutan), subtropical fruits (passion fruit, avocado, date, litchi and Solanum quitoense) and some temperate fruits (grapevine, Actinidia chinensis, peach, plum, apple and...

Micropropagation was developed as a tool for the rapid propagation of elite plant material. Subsequently, the last half-century has seen a variety of regeneration systems being developed, with application in plant breeding and improvement programmes for a wide range of plant species. Unfortunately, ...

Fruit from 12 plant species of the family Myrtaceae Juss. were sampled from 2010 to 2017 in the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces of South Africa to obtain information on the host utilization of the economically important fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) and the false codling moth, ...

The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of the mango red spider mite, Oligonychus mangiferus (Rahman and Sapra, 1940) (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae), for the territory of the EU. This species is not included in the EU Commission Implementing Regulation 2019/2072. The...

Fruit flies are among the most economically important fruit pests worldwide. The larvae are phytophagous and constitute a major production constraint in the horticultural industry. Various indigenous fruits were sampled from 2010 to 2015 in Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa to...

There is limited information about the decomposition of leaf litter from subtropical fruit trees despite their potential for managing soil fertility. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of quality on decomposition and nutrient-release patterns from leaf litter of avocado, litchi, and ...

Fopius arisanus (Sonan) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a koinobiont solitary parasitoid of various fruit flies, particularly those in the genus Bactrocera. Researchers introduced F. arisanus into Africa for the biological control of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), a pest of a...

The growing African population needs a substantial increase in food production along with nutritious food options to address hunger, malnutrition and stunting. The indigenous or naturalized African fruit tree species are inherently nutritious, fortified with minerals, vitamins and antioxidants with ...

The carambola fruit fly, Bactrocera carambolae, is a tephritid native to Asia that has invaded South America through small-scale trade of fruits from Indonesia. The economic losses associated with biological invasions of other fruit flies around the world and the polyphagous behaviour of B....