Pitahaya (Hylocereus spp.): a new fruit crop, a market with a future

By F. Bellec, F. Vaillant, E. Imbert. 2006

374 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Food Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. H. Klein
2. R. Arlettaz
3. J. Hoffmann

In Plant Science

1. R. Arlettaz
2. J. Hoffmann
3. John R. U. Wilson
4. Lesley Henderson

Citations in the corpus

• Biological Control of Cactaceae in South Africa (2011, background): “It is cultivated extensively in Israel and on a smaller scale in Australia and on Réunion Island (Van Wyk 2005; Le Bellec et al. 2006).”
• Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes (2016, background): “Although H. undatus is self-compatible, other species such as H. costaricensis (an important fruit crop in southern Mesoamerica) apparently rely on pollination by bats and sphingid moths (Weiss et al. 1994; Le Bellec et al. 2006).”
• Proximate Analysis of Dragon Fruit ( Hylecereus polyhizus ) (2009, background): “The red skin fruit weighed up to 1kg has translucent dark-red flesh considered as a rich source of nutrients and minerals such as vitam in B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3 and vitamin C, protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, flavonoid, thiamin, niac in, pyridoxine, kobalamin, glucose, phenolic, betacya”