Wiley, 2016. — 692 p. The oil palm is the world's most valuable oil crop. Its production has increased over the decades, reaching 56 million tons in 2013, and it gives the highest yields per hectare of all oil crops. Remarkably, oil palm has remained profitable through periods of low prices. Demand for palm oil is also expanding, with the edible demand now complemented by added...
Springer, 2005. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-1402038327. In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal communities, comparing sites within and across continents. In total, 12 primary contributors, including noted plant and animal ecologists, present newly-analyzed long-term datasets on the...
Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2003. — 132 p. — (ACIAR Monograph No. 101). ISBN: 1-86320-369-9 (printed). ISBN: 1-86320-370-2 (online). Coconut is a tree of great versatility. It provides food, drink, clothing and shelter, as well as a source of income from its products. Coconut can grow in fragile environments, on coasts and coral atolls...
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. University of Hawai‘i, 2007. — 58 p. This publication is based on activities of the “12 Trees Project,” a three-year agricultural demonstration program funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (Western SARE), a competitive grants program of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension...
Department of State Agency for International Development. Washington, D. C., Department of State, Agency for International development, 1970. — 186 p. U.S. agencies having responsibility in foreign assistance programs long have recognized the need for a handbook on horticultural crops in the Tropics. Information on the subject may be found in various scientific textbooks,...
Second Edition. — CABI, 2011. — 436 p. — (Series: Crop Production Science in Horticulture, Book 20). — ISBN: 978-1-84593-672-3. The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues such as tree management and postharvest handling, updated...
Springer, 2019. — 227 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-21054-0. This book provides detailed information on the methods and techniques that can be used to process coir, cocopeat and other coconut byproducts for developing various bioproducts. Coir is a unique raw material in that it is abundant, green, and sustainable. The most common industrial application of coir is to use it as a...
Academic Press, 2018. — 490 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-803138-4. This book is the ultimate, most complete reference work on exotic fruits from around the world. The book focuses on exotic fruit origin, botanical aspects, cultivation and harvest, physiology and biochemistry, chemical composition and nutritional value, including phenolics and antioxidant compounds. This guide is in...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2016. — 202 p. — (Compendium of Plant Genomes). — ISBN: 9783319488868. Olive (Olea europaea L., subsp. europaea, var. europaea), a multifunctional long-living tree crop, is relevant not only for table olive and oil production, but also for shaping and protecting the landscape and for its impact on human nutrition and rural lifestyle. It is...
Second Edition. — CABI, 2010. — 320 p. — (Series: Crop Production Science in Horticulture, Book 19). ISBN: 978-1-84593-658-7. Bananas and plantains are major fruit crops in the tropics and subtropics, making a vital contribution to the economies of many countries. In the last 15 years, substantial changes have occurred in banana production, among them the increased importance...
2nd Revised edition. — CABI, 2013. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84593-701-0. Although avocado has been cultivated and consumed for more than 9,000 years near its center of origin in Latin America, world production and trade has increased dramatically over the past few decades. The avocado is now a widely traded fruit between warmer and colder countries as a result of the global...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 230 p. — (The Biology of Horticultural Crops). ISBN 0 521 33321 0. This book provides a concise and comprehensive discussion of all major developmental, genetic and horticultural aspects of citriculture in an easily readable text. It covers the history, distribution and climatic adaptation of the crop, followed by taxonomy and systematics,...
Washington: United States department of Agriculture, 1931. — 20 p. Hybrids of the tángelo group. Previous tángelo hybrids. A new series of tangelos. Hybrids serving as substitutes for limes and lemons. A calamondin hybrid. Hybrids serving as substitutes for limes and lemons — Continued. A lemon-lime hybrid. Summary. Literature cited.
Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2002. — 329 p. — (ACIAR Monograph No. 85). ISBN: 1-86320-331-1. This book covers the woody species, which cultivated or wild, produce the great majority of fleshy and non-fleshy fruits of the Pacific. Four regions served as the study area: Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga. Presentation. The four...
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