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 ...

Anthracnose diseases, caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, are a worldwide problem and are especially important in Taiwan owing to the severe economic damage they cause to tropical fruits that are grown for local consumption and export. Benzimidazoles are systemic fungicides widely used for...

Measures for preventing damage and assisting in the recovery of fruit trees after natural disasters in Taiwan are described. Damage due to excessively low and high temperatures, flooding, drought and typhoons is covered. The first part of the manual reviews the effects of these extreme...

Production and marketing history of major tropical fruit trees in Taiwan is described, and present and future goals for cultivar improvement are presented for bananas [Musa], pineapples [Ananas comosus], mangoes [Mangifera indica], papayas (pawpaws, Carica papaya), guavas [Psidium guajava], star...

For the past decades, scientists of Taiwan have bred and released a number of GA3 fruit varieties, including 'Emperor' guava, five processing pineapple cultivars and eleven fresh use pineapple cultivars, 3 wax apple cultivars, 2 sugar apple, and 1 atemoya. These new cultivars provide consumers a...

These proceedings are presented in 2 volumes. Volume I contains the welcoming addresses of the opening ceremony and 3 other sections as follows: (I) keynote speeches on increasing the competitiveness of Taiwan's fruit industry (8 papers); (II) improvements in tropical fruit tree cultivars (6...

Research conducted in Taiwan on the following crops is discussed: citrus, litchi, longans, sugar apple [Annona squamosa] and loquats.

The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has recently become an invasive pest in Taiwan. With its polyphagous nature and broad host range, including more than 353 plant species of 76 families, FAW attracts worldwide attention because it causes...

Brown root disease of fruit and ornamental trees caused by Phellinus noxius was surveyed from 1988 to 1998 in Taiwan. A total of 43 species of woody plants were found to be naturally infected by the pathogen. Hosts included 19 fruit trees (longan, litchi, sugar apple [Annona squamosa], mountain...

The liquid of anaerobic fermentation from Livestock (LAFL) can supply nutrients for plants. Therefore, it should be beneficial to the growth of crops. The experiment was carried out with a view to study the effect of irrigation based on LAFL and separately, chemical fertilizer (CK) for ten kinds of ...