A multitude of insects and mites attack fruit crops throughout the tropics. The traditional method for controlling most of these pests is the application of chemical pesticides. Growing concern on the negative environmental effects has encouraged the development of alternatives. Inundatively and inoculatively applied microbial control agents (virus, bacteria, fungi, and entomopathogenic nematod...

Chilling injury in tropical and subtropical fruits can be alleviated by low temperature preconditioning, intermittent warming, heat treatment, controlled atmosphere storage, treatments with calcium or other chemicals, waxing, film packaging, genetic modification, or applications with ethylene, abscisic acid, polyamines, methyl jasmonate, methyl salicylate, or other natural compounds. The effect...

Geuk (Momordica cochinchinensis spreng) tropical fruits, which are produced in Jeju Island, Korea, well known for containing high levels of carotenoids and α-tocopherol. In this study, geuk fruits were separated two parts (pulp; yellow-orange and seed aril; red). The extracts of geuk fruits were simultaneously analyzed for carotenoids and α-tocopherol contents using HPLC. The results showed tha...

a IBB – Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Federal University of Ceará, Campus do Pici, CEP 60451-970 Fortaleza, CE, Brazil Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Fortaleza, Av. Washington Soares, 1321 Bairro Edson Queiroz, 60811-...

Pawpaw, banana and watermelon are tropical fruits with short shelf-lives under the prevailing temperatures and humid conditions in tropical countries like Nigeria. Production of wine from these fruits could help reduce the level of post-harvest loss and increase variety of wines. Pawpaw, banana and watermelon were used to produce mixed fruit wines using Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from pa...

The pattern of food allergy in adults is different from that of children in various aspects. The typical foods involved in infants are milk, egg, peanut and probably tree nuts, whereas in older children and adults fruits and nuts are the most frequent allergenic foods. In addition, allergy to vegetables can occur. Allergy to milk and egg largely disappears at young age, but can still be present...