The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources online archive contains publications old and new on a wide variety of topics pertinent to farms, familes and communities.

Employing proteomics, electron microscopy and biochemistry, a team of College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources scientists identified a genetic trigger unique to pineapple that inhibits the ripening process.

To better understand business owners of different ethnic groups, researchers reviewed survey data from telephone interviews with 200 Korean American and 200 Mexican American business owners.

The 22nd Annual College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Awards Banquet is scheduled Friday, May 7, 2010, at the Sheraton Waikīkī Kauaʻi and Maui Ballrooms.

Buoyed by findings that a bitter melon extract kills breast cancer cells without harming healthy cells, a College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources researcher suggests that the bumpy green tropical fruit may have a place in a cancer prevention diet.

Arrival of the varroa mite on Oʻahu and the Big Island has spread viruses that have dramatically decreased the wild honeybee population.

The whitefly-borne Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl viral disease threatens Hawaiʻi’s tomato crops.

A koa bug and 225,000 other insects are part of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Insect Museum, which is one of 30 collections in the university’s Virtual Museum.

UH scientists study historical records and caterpillar parasites in a search for what triggers and tempers outbreaks of an indigenous moth that defoliates koa trees.

Creating positive family environments.

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