The fruit production in the tropics offers a greater scope to modify a plant's flowering and fruiting cycles than in temperate areas. Changing the normal seasonal flowering cycle offers growers considerable economic advantages, by enhancing the ability to market tropical fruit in the off-season. A...

Even in the tropical area where the temperature is relatively constant year-round, fruits are harvested seasonally. During the harvest season, fruits are available in abundance, but fruit are scarce during the off-season. Extending the fruiting period with an earlier start and delaying the end of...

The present state of knowledge revealed that fruits such as papaya [pawpaw], banana, ber [Ziziphus mauritiana], guava, mango, sapota [Manilkara zapota], citrus fruits, custard apple [Annona reticulata] and pomegranate can be stored safely for certain period under ambient temperature as well as in...

This paper reviews the information on spacing, cultivars, rootstock, pruning, training, nutrition and use of plant bioregulators in relation to high density planting and management in important tropical and subtropical fruits such as mango, banana, citrus fruits, guava, ber [Ziziphus mauritiana], ...

Pruning, drought stress, and plant growth regulators (PGR) have been utilized to promote off-season flowering with varying success in tropical fruit production. However, removing an existent crop to promote off-season fruit production is not a common cultural practice. Pruning may involve removal...

Many plants of horticultural interest are now propagated commercially by cuttings, since it is the easiest and most convenient method of vegetative propagation. Secondly, as the plants develop and grown on its own root system, the complex stock-scion relationship that exist in a graft can be...

Propagation of some tropical fruit crops, guava, litchi, jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), custard-apple (Annona squamosa), water-apple (Syzygium javanicum [Eugenia javanica]), rose-apple (S. jambos), karunda (Carissa carandas) and cashewnut (Anacardium occidentale), by cuttings was...

The increase in solar radiation and temperature as a result of climate change and variability has increased sunburn damage to fruits, which highly affects quality and yield in tropical and subtropical fruit plants. Solar injuries increase because of conditions with low relative humidity, fruits...

Tropical fruit species are important worldwide and contribute to human nutrition, environmental protection and income generation. In the Asia, Pacific and Oceania region there are more than 400 tropical fruit species. However, many are subject to genetic erosion and their conservation is difficult...

1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) (SmartFresh^TM) is an ethylene antagonist widely used to retain quality and prolong the postharvest storage period of various climacteric fruits in which ethylene plays a critical role in regulation of the ripening process. Nonetheless, it has been found that exposure to ...