TROPICAL FRUIT IN REVIEW
What's New?
Call for papers on Exotic Fruits in Special Issue of Food Research International
Published on 25th Jun 2010
Food Research International is seeking original, unpublished and review contributions on exotic fruits including:
Chemistry of minor and major components of exotic fruits, including changes occurring from farms, during processing to storage (of fruits or their products);
Nutritional properties: bioactive compounds, their health benefits, stability and fate during processing;
Analytical methods focused on studying major and minor components of exotic fruits and their products, mainly bioactive compounds;
Biochemistry: enzymes in exotic fruits and their potential applications, post-harvest modifications, molecular biology and biophysics;
Biotechnology: Biotransformation of compounds, utilization of industrial wastes;
Microbiological issues: Incidence and behavior of spoilage microorganisms and foodborne pathogens in exotic fruits and their products.
Microbial ecology. Fermented foods or beverages made with exotic fruits or their parts. Use of beneficial microorganisms. Predictive microbiology;
Sensory and consumer studies: Consumer view and perception on exotic fruits and their contribution to a healthy diet, sensorial aspects and volatile compounds in exotic fruits, acceptance of food products formulated with exotic fruits, use of exotic fruits health appeal as marketing strategies to improve fruit consumption, psychophysics relating to sensory aspects of exotic fruits and their products, consumption of exotic fruits in specific regions of the world and its relationship with health status of population;
Toxicological aspects related to exotic fruits;
Engineering aspects, including the determination of physical properties of exotic fruits relevant to processing, modeling and optimization studies to preserve major and minor components of fruits, basic and applicable engineering principles to fruit products and processes;
Technology: Approaches to improve and optimize stability of exotic fruit products, such as hurdle technology, use of emergent preservation techniques to preserve nutritional/sensorial aspects, use of exotic fruits or their compounds as food ingredients, nanotechnology, methods to improve delivery and stability of bioactive compounds;
Sustainability and seed technologies: sustainability aspects of exotic fruits exploitation, conscious use of natural resources, strategies such as seed technologies and plant breeding to increase commercial exploitation of exotic fruits;
Application of “omics” as tools to study chemical, microbiological and nutritional aspects of exotic fruits research.
Submission guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit an original manuscript, short communication or review paper for publication in a Food Research International special issue dedicated to exotic fruits-related research. Please refer to the journal's Guide for Authors for specific advice on how to prepare a paper (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/foodres). Papers must be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) site for the Journal - http://ees.elsevier.com/foodres - beginning in December 2009 (select Special Issue: Exotic Fruits). Closing date for submissions is September 15th, 2010. Inquiries regarding the content of papers may be submitted to Anderson Sant’Ana (assantana@usp.br).
Timelines:
December 2009: Beginning of paper submission
September 15th, 2010: Deadline for paper submission
January-October 2010: Peer-review process
February-December, 2010: Revised manuscript due
February 2011: Publication
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Fruit project could accelerate scientific research "by decades"
Published on 25th Apr 2010
An ambitious new project to record the experiences of thousands 
of smallholder farmers in Colombia to help establish optimum growing conditions for tropical fruits in the country, is to begin imminently, following a USD $1.6m grant from Asohofrucol (the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Colombia). Click here for more information.
Tropical Fruits: Resources
Associations/Centers
Bioversity International. Banana and Plantain Section.(Formerly INIBAP)
CARBAP - Centre Africain de Recherches sur Bananiers et Plantains
CIRAD - Agricultural Research For Developing Countries
European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN)
ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT
IITA -International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
International Society for Horticultural Science. Banana and Plantain Section
International Society for Horticultural Science. Tropical and Subtropical Fruits Working Group
International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet)
ProMusa The website of the banana R & D community.
Tropical Forest Trust (TFN)
World Agroforestry Centre Trees and Markets
PublicationsActa Horticulturae: ISHS Section on Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Meetings
E-Letter Devoted to Fighting Fruit and Vegetable Flies (COLEACP)
Fruits A scientific journal for original articles and reviews on fruit crops in temperate, Mediterranean, subtropical and tropical regions. Fruits covers a wide range of subjects (agronomy, physiology, genetics, crop protection, postharvest storage, product processing and marketing). In each issue, Fruits presents a list of forthcoming meetings and new books published on the fruit topic.
Lost Crops of Africa. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. Vol. III: Fruits, 2008
Pineapple News (ISHS) no.1, 1994-
Tropical and Subtropical Fruits Newsletter (ISHS)