This book was first published under the title Fruits of India: tropical and subtropical. It was updated in 1990 and the title changed to reflect the change in content, a number of fruit crops widely grown in tropical and subtropical regions, but not popular in India, being included. Thirty-one...

Two introductory chapters on the tropics and its soils, and cultivation and postharvest handling of tropical fruits, are followed by chapters on the following tropical (and subtropical) fruits: annonas; avocados; bananas; carambolas; guavas; litchis, longans and rambutans; mangoes; papayas...

All the tropical fruit consumed in Turkey has been imported with the exception of banana (partial) and avocado. Banana, pineapple, coconut, avocado and mango are major tropical fruit species among this importation. Importations of the other tropical crops are limited due to sensitivity to...

Under-utilized subtropical fruits because of their hardy nature of tree, high production potential in degraded lands and high nutritional value have immense potential of commercialization in rural India in the years to come. During last five decades, most of the horticultural development efforts...

This multiauthor book aims to fulfill the need to have, in one volume, comprehensive information on preharvest production, postharvest handling and processing of fruit crops grown throughout the world. An introductory chapter is followed by chapters on individual temperate, subtropical and tropical ...

Indonesian Tropical Fruit Research Institute (ITFRI) is a part of Indonesian Agency of Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Department of Agriculture. The responsibility of ITFRI is to produce technologies for increasing competitiveness of tropical fruit agribusiness in the global...

Fourteen tropical fruits from south Florida (red guava, white guava, carambola, red pitaya (red dragon), white pitaya (white dragon), mamey, sapodilla, lychee, longan, green mango, ripe mango, green papaya and ripe papaya) were evaluated for phenolic compounds, anti-oxidant activity, ascorbic acid ...

This paper provides a review of the research works on fungal, bacterial, viral and phytoplasmal diseases of aonla (Phyllanthus emblica), bael (Aegle marmelos), ber (Ziziphus mauritiana), pomegranate, fig, jackfruit, karonda (Carissa carandas), phalsa (Grewia asiatica), date palm (Phoenix...

Fruit production has been increasingly playing an important role in agricultural production in Vietnam. In 2016, the area of fruit trees in Vietnam reached 848 thousand hectares with an estimated productivity of over 8 million tons of fruit. Out of the fruit growing areas, the production in the...

Nutritional Composition of Fruit Cultivars provides readers with the latest information on the health related properties of foods, making the documentation of the nutritive value of historical cultivars especially urgent, especially before they are lost and can't be effectively compared to modern...