Background Exotic tropical fruits and plants are highly consumed in Brazil and due to globalization these products are being exported worldwide. We have recently described the first manioc allergen Man e 5 that cross-reacts with Hev b 5 from latex. There are more than 70 products made up manioc starch such as drugs, soaps and fabrics and manioc allergic patients present from mild to severe reac...

Fruits are perishable horticultural crops grown in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world. It is a richest source micro nutrients phyto chemicals that contributed significant role human health. Mango, avocado, papaya, guava pine apple popular economically important fruits due to their essential nutritional properties appreciated eating quality. However, developing countries, upto 50% thos...

Background and objectives: Capparis spinosa is a perennial herb belonging to the Capparidaceae family that is mainly distributed in arid and semi-arid regions of the tropical and subtropical world. The plant is a potential source of valuable nutrients that is valued for human food. The fruit of this plant, being a rich source of high-value components, is usually pickle...

Mango is an important fruit crop of tropical and subtropical world. Being climacteric fruit it has short shelf life and susceptibility to low storage temperature limits its long term storage and distant marketing. Along with other endogenous plant growth substances polyamines have been involved in the development and ripening of mango fruit which ultimately affect its storage life and quality. ...

In this study, we investigated to what extent exemplar-based and prototype predictors can be applied to predicting categorization in natural language concepts. Participants categorized novel tropical foods into two well-known natural language concepts: fruits and vegetables. The results indicate that both the prototype predictors and the exemplar predictors contribute significantly in accountin...

From January 2000 through December 2002 phenological transects were carried out to assess monthly leaf, flower and (ripe) fruit presence for 423 individual plants (95 plant species, 43 families) within the littoral forest of Sainte Luce. Fruit-on-trail-counts were conducted additionally in the year 2000 to allow comparison between both methods. Despite low climatic seasonality and absence of a ...

Drying is a popular food preservation technology that reduces waste and promotes security. Though drying microbial growth increases shelf life of fruits, it alters sensory properties both favourably unfavourably depending on the nature process applied significantly influences final product quality. However, there currently no review article impact sensorial quality attributes tropical fruits. T...

L.) is an economically important fruit tree belonging to family Anacardiaceae, grown in the tropical and sub-tropical areas of world. It usually nursery marketed as a scion seedling. Mango fruits are consumed due their high nutritional values, delicious taste, excellent flavour. In January 2022, abundant fungal infection appeared scattered on leaves mango seedlings at commercial production Isma...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The deterioration of seasonally tropical dry forests will stop with the implementation of management plans for this ecosystem. To develop these plans, we require information regarding aspects such as germination and the presence of 'empty seeds' of representative species-like, for example, Bursera, a genus with a high number of endemic species of the Mesoamerican Hotspot-tha...