The wedge grafting technique is described in detail for students, nursery growers and technologists. Formerly considered as very difficult to accomplish and with poor results, this technique is now yielding very high graft success beyond 95% in rambutans, lychees, longans and other fruit trees in...

The " etiolated shoot " or " etiolation " method of propagation is described in an earlier paper. Malay. agric. J., 1934, 22: 58-62, H.A., 1934, 4: 2: 279. The experiments were started in July 1932 at Serdang and have been continued there and at other stations throughout Malaya. The present paper...

A study was conducted in Ceara, Brazil in 2000 to evaluate the intercropping systems of tropical fruit trees. Ten species were planted in 1.2 ha, and each row had 2 species in alternate and divergent positions in relation to the lateral lines, so that each plant was surrounded by plants of...

The commercialization of exotic fruits in Brazil has been expanding considerably in the last years presenting the production of approximately 40 million tons, keeping behind only of China and India. Know the biometric variability of fruits is of great importance, since each fruit has a special...

Parasitoids are important natural control agents of tephritids and knowledge about the tritrophic relationships can support the management of these pests. This study aimed to estimate of parasitism indexes in fruit flies in 21 plant species and identify the species of parasitoids associated, in...

This issue presents studies on the leaf area estimation in lychees by means of allometric relationships, dehydration and spraying of buriti (Mauritia flexuosa), quality index and harvest maturity of Eugenia cibrata fruits, Gonodonta (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) species defoliating sugar apple and...

Over 2 years, fruits were sampled from 10-year-old trees of 12 introduced species in the FCAV-UNESP germplasm collection and evaluated in relation to local conditions in Jaboticabal, Brazil (1431.4 mm of rain/year, 22.2°C mean temperature, 575 m altitude, 48°W and 21°S). The species studied were ...

Flavor is one of the main attributes of foods and is given by a combination of volatile molecules present in the matrix. This paper reviews the general characteristics and uses and focuses on the volatile composition of selected Brazilian exotic fruits: Brazilian cherry (Eugenia uniflora), acerola...

The Cerrados region of Brazil covers an area of ∼204 million ha, encompassing a large variety of soils, climate, fauna and flora. Propagation techniques and cultural methods for fruit trees in general are described. Specific information (common and scientific names, family, distribution, plant...

The antioxidant activity and polyphenol and anthocyanin contents of wild tropical fruit and commercial frozen fruit pulps in southern Brazil, were investigated. The detection of 2.2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH) was used to determine the antioxidant activity, the Folin-Ciocalteu method...