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...

Current cultivars grown and problems and prospects related to growing avocados, cherimoyas, dates, guavas, sapodillas and mangoes in Spain are described. Germplasm collections exist for mango (CITA, Canary Islands) and cherimoya (La Mayora, Málaga, Andalucía).

The only tropical and subtropical fruit crops grown commercially are bananas (Canary Islands), avocados (Canary Islands and mainland) and cherimoyas (mainland). Bananas are the main crop of the Canary Islands, with 12 000 ha planted to cv. Dwarf Cavendish. Loquats are grown on a small scale in the...

The potential for expansion of cherimoya, mango and avocado in Malaga and Granada, Spain, is explored. Cherimoya is discussed, with particular reference to the introduction and evaluation of new autumn cultivars and production of cherimoya in spring. Rootstocks and cultivars, and methods of...

The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Pulvinaria psidii (Hemiptera: Coccidae), the green shield scale, for the EU. P. psidii was originally described from Hawaii on Psidium sp. and it is now established in many countries in tropical and subtropical regions of the world....

Compositional data for mature babaco (Carica pentagona), feijoa (Acca sellowiana), passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) and tamarillo (Cyphomandra betacea) fruits grown in Galicia are tabulated and compared with data for fruits grown in other regions, particularly Ecuador, New Zealand and Italy.

An analysis of the diffusion pattern of tropical fruit species in Europe is presented. Pineapple production began in the Azores in the 1860s, expanded for several decades, but then entered a period of crisis from which it has not recovered, although pineapples are still grown there largely for the...

In an analysis of the seven types of subtropical fruits most consumed and produced in southern Spain, UPLC-ESI-MS/MS was used to quantify 14 phenolic species: five hydroxycinnamic acids, seven hydroxybenzoic acids and two flavonoids (quercetin and naringenin). In each case, in addition, antioxidant ...

Resource use and watershed management have become an increasingly important issue, stressing the need to find appropriate management approaches for improving agricultural landscapes. We analysed land-use changes from 1978 to 2007 in a representative watershed of Almuñécar (SE Spain). In 1978 the...

This multiauthor book, consisting of 28 chapters, was published jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Botanical Garden of Córdoba, Spain as part of the Etnobotánica 92 Programme, held in Andalusia, Spain during September 1992. It contains a study of 65 crops, mostly of...