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Postharvest Biology and Quality Preservation of Vasconcellea pubescens: Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Fruit Losses

Horticulturae
Vasconcellea pubescens (mountain papaya) is an underutilized Andean fruit with distinctive nutritional and functional properties, yet its rapid softening and short shelf-life result in significant postharvest losses.
Tamara Méndez, Valentina Jara-Villacura, Carolina Parra-Palma, Luis Morales-Quintana   +3 more
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Local Adaptation to Current but Not Future Climate in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Population Genomic Evidence in a Neotropical Legume Tree

Evolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Neotropical seasonally dry biomes are amongst the world's most threatened ecosystems and are predicted to lose more biodiversity with climate change. The capacity of natural populations to respond to these changes depends on their genetic variation, but is poorly understood in most Neotropical seasonally dry forest species.
Francisco J. Velásquez‐Puentes, Walter Durka, Colin Hughes, R. Toby Pennington, Jens J. Ringelberg, Renske E. Onstein, Christopher D. Barratt   +6 more
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Genetic structure of a Colombian cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) collection by means of microsatellite markers

Agronomía Colombiana, 2016
The cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.), a fruit species cultivated in the Andes, is one of the major fruit exports of Colombia. We hypothesized that the Andean cordilleras in Colombia play a role in structuring the genetic diversity of this crop ...
María Isabel Chacón S., Yubelly del Pilar Sánchez, Luz Stella Barrero M.   +2 more
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Seed Structural Variability and Germination Capacity in Passiflora edulis Sims f. edulis

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Purple passion fruit, Passiflora edulis Sims f. edulis, is an important semi-perennial, fruit bearing vine originating in South America that produces a commercial tropical juice pulp for international and national consumption.
Nohra Rodríguez Castillo, Luz Marina Melgarejo, Matthew Wohlgemuth Blair   +2 more
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Reconfiguring biofortification strategies to transform food systems and address micronutrient deficiency of the 21st century

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 8, Page 2511-2547, August 2026.
This review explores how to make staple foods and horticultural crops more nutritious, including how artificial intelligence‐based screening of gene banks helps deploy nutritionally rich germplasm into breeding. Genome editing can help develop crops richer in minerals, vitamins, and health‐promoting compounds, supporting healthier diets and more ...
Rhowell Jr. N. Tiozon, Alisdair R. Fernie, Nese Sreenivasulu   +2 more
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NPK Fertilization at Planting for Physalis (Physalis peruviana L.)

Revista Agrogeoambiental, 2019
Physalis peruviana L. (Solanaceae) is an Andean shrub species that produces sugary fruits. The cultivation of this species is recent, thus, aspects related to soil fertilization for it still need to be studied.
César Ferreira Santos, Geann Costa Dias, Sheila Isabel do Carmo Pinto, Paulino da Cunha Leite, Konrad Passos e Silva   +4 more
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Chilean Papaya (Vasconcellea pubescens): A Native Fruit with a High Health-Promoting Functional Potential

Antioxidants
Papaya fruit is commonly known for its nutritional and medicinal value. It is a perennial, herbaceous, and trioecious cross-pollinated species with male, female, and hermaphrodite plants.
Roberto Lemus-Mondaca, Luis Puente-Díaz, Angélica Cifuentes, Katherine Lizama, Paula González   +4 more
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Phenological Variation of Native and Reforested Juglans neotropica Diels in Response to Edaphic and Orographic Gradients in Southern Ecuador

Diversity
Juglans neotropica Diels, classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List, plays a crucial role in the resilience of Andean montane forests in southern Ecuador—a megadiverse region encompassing coastal, Andean, and Amazonian ecosystems. This study examines
Byron Palacios-Herrera, Santiago Pereira-Lorenzo, Darwin Pucha-Cofrep   +2 more
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Potential Evaluation of Agroindustrial Waste from Three Passifloraces as a Source of Usable Biomass

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2018
Colombia is the country with the highest biodiversity of species of the Passifloraceae family in the world, to date possess an inventory of 167 species. Some of these have a high commercial importance derived from their consumption in fresh and processed;
D. Suarez Rivero, O. Marin Mahecha, D. Marin Torres, M. Suarez Rivero, L.C. Ballesteros, J. Ortiz Aguilar   +5 more
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Andean Berry (Vaccinium meridionale Swartz) Juice Promotes Cytotoxic and Proapoptotic Effects in Human Early-Stage and Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Cells

Molecules
Andean berry (Vaccinium meridionale Swartz) is an underutilized fruit that could serve as a source of bioactive compounds with biological properties associated with apoptosis and cytotoxicity in colorectal cancer cells.
Ivan Luzardo-Ocampo, Myriam Agudelo-Quintero, Sandra S. Arango-Varela, Silvia A. Quijano, Maria E. Maldonado-Celis, Jorge A. Lopera-Rodríguez   +5 more
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