Pesticides Registered for Tropical Fruit Crops in Florida

Genomics of Tropical Fruit Tree Crops

Bird damage to tropical fruit in south Florida

In Dade County, Florida, the production of tropical fruit is a major component of the agricultural industry with total sales amounting to $73.5 million in the 1997-1998 season. Two types of fruit in particular, lychee (Litchi chinensis) and longan (Euphoria longana), are rapidly emerging in economic importance with a combined annual value of over $19 million. For many lychee and longan growers,...

Blackbird Repellency of Selected Registered Pesticides

Bird depredation of agricultural crops is a worldwide problem. New strategies to include chemical repellents are needed to mitigate crop losses. We evaluated 3 preplant seed treatments (Apron XLt LS [Syngenta Crop Protection, Greensboro, NC], Dividend Extremet [Syngenta], and Maximt 4 FS [Syngenta]), one foliar insecticide (Karatet with Zeon Technologye [Syngenta]), and one foliar fungicide (Ti...

FCDD: A Database for Fruit Crops Diseases

UNLABELLED Fruit Crops Diseases Database (FCDD) requires a number of biotechnology and bioinformatics tools. The FCDD is a unique bioinformatics resource that compiles information about 162 details on fruit crops diseases, diseases type, its causal organism, images, symptoms and their control. The FCDD contains 171 phytochemicals from 25 fruits, their 2D images and their 20 possible sequences. ...

Legume Cover Crops and Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Fruit Tree Production

Legume cover crops have various important effects on nutrient cycling in tropical fruit tree production: they (i) fix atmospheric N2 and may amend the soil and trees with N, (ii) recycle nutrients, and (iii) affect soil nutrient availability. Aboveground N accumulation usually is very large in legume cover crops as seen from Pueraria phaseoloides being 8 to 14 times higher than in intercropped ...