Pest survey card on non‐EU Tephritidae affecting tropical and subtropical fruits

Alleviation of Chilling Injury in Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

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...

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems

SUMMARY Thyroid hormones and their receptors in the ovaries are active regulators of reproductive function; both hyper-and hypo-thyroidism may result in estrous cycle disturbances. In addition, thyroid hormones elicit an extraordinary multiplicity of biochemical, cellular, and physiological responses, both in the simplest and the most complex organisms. On the other hand, glutamate, the main ex...

Temperature-dependent Dielectric Properties of Selected Subtropical and Tropical Fruits and Associated Insect Pests

Knowledge of the dielectric properties of commodities and insect pests is important in developing thermal treatments for postharvest insect control based on radio frequency (RF) and microwave energy. The dielectric properties of six subtropical and tropical fruits along with four associated insect pests were measured between 1 and 1800 MHz using an open-ended coaxial-line probe technique and at...