Indigenous Fruit Trees of Tropical Africa: Status, Opportunity for Development and Biodiversity Management
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53011#.VK9ImcnQrzE Author(s) Rasheed Olufemi Awodoyin 1 , Oluseun Sunday Olubode 1 , Justin Ugochukwu Ogbu 2* , Rasheed Babatunde Balogun 2 , Jonah U. Nwawuisi 3 , Kalu O. Orji 4 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria . 2 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Technology, Federal College of Agriculture (FCA), Ishiagu, Nigeria . 3 Department of Pest Management Technology, Federal College of Agriculture (FCA), Ishiagu, Nigeria . 4 Department of Agronomy, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUA), Umuahia, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Tropical fruit trees constitute important biological resources in the global agrobiodiversity context. Unlike the tropical fruit trees of American and Asian origin, indigenous fruit trees (IFT) of tropical Africa have scarcely achieved the status of ...