| Botany and
Cultivation |
- Breadfruit:
Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg
(6.25 Mb PDF file)
(Diane Ragone, 1997, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
(IPGRI))
Covers botany, origins, uses, genetics, breeding, ecology and agronomy.
- Breadfruit:
Artocarpus altilis (1987)
(Julia F. Morton, Fruits of Warm Climates, 1987)
Covers horticulture of breadfruit; propagation, culture,
pests, and diseases; also includes harvesting, yield, food uses,
and nutritional value.
- 'Ulu
(Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii)
'Ulu (breadfruit), its cultivation, and use in Native Hawaiian culture.
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| Diseases and Pests |
- Coconut
Scale (Aspidiotus destructor Signoret) (88
Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-5
(Donald Nafus, University of Guam, 2000, Agricultural Development in
the American Pacific (ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photographs of the insect.
- Report
Document on Diagnosis of Banana, Yam, and Other Diseases in Pohnpei
(1.7 Mb PDF file)
(Scot C. Nelson and Flordeliza B. Javier, 2001, Cooperative Research
and Extension, College of Micronesia - FSM)
Reports on the identification of a fungal disease of banana, yam rust
disease, and phytophthora fruit rot of breadfruit; includes many color
photographs of disease symptoms.
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| Marketing and Statistics |
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, the number
of trees of bearing age, and number of trees not of bearing age; in PDF
format.
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Guam
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, the number
of trees of bearing age, and number of trees not of bearing age; in PDF
format.
- 1999
Census of Agriculture - American Samoa
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1999; number of farms, number of trees, pounds
harvested for sale and for consumption, and the value in dollars of the
fruit harvested for sale and for consumption; in PDF format.
- Virgin
Islands of the United States: 1998 Census of Agriculture - Area Data
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, trees of bearing age, trees
not of bearing age, and pounds harvested; in PDF format.
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| Reference and Research Tools |
- Free Public Databases
- AGRICOLA:
1970-present
(U.S. National Agricultural Library)
Citations, most with abstracts, to journal articles, books, theses,
technical reports, and other publications in agriculture and related
areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
- AGRIS
1975 - present
(FAO)
International database covering agricultural sciences and technology
containing citations for conventional and non-conventional ("grey")
literature.
- PubMed
(Medline) 1966 - present
(U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Citations, most with abstracts, for journal articles in biomedicine
including nutrition.
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