Abstract Background The plant family Cactaceae provides some of the most striking
examples of adaptive evolution, expressing undeniably the most spectacular New World …

Hylocereus is a native American cactus of varied habits and widely distributed from the
Florida coast to Brazil. The fruit is known under several commercial and native names, but …

The Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington located just
outside Tucson, Arizona, was a major location for early environmental research on cacti …

In Israel, scarcity of water, high input prices, and market competition limit the number of
orchard crops that can be grown profitably. Our approach to the further development of the …

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) species show an average increase in biomass
productivity of 35% in response to a doubled atmospheric CO2 concentration. Daily net CO2 …

Until 1994, only scarce research existed on these plants; however the worldwide interest in
this novel fruit crop is evident, as numbers of pitaya-related publications have grown rapidly …

Abstract Background and Scope The epiphytic life form characterizes almost 10% of all
vascular plants. Defined by structural dependence throughout their life and their non …

Selenicereus megalanthus and Hylocereus polyrhizus, hemiepiphytic cacti of shady
habitats, have recently been introduced as fruit crops to the Negev Desert of Israel. Since …

The climate of the native tropical forest habitats of Hylocereus undatus, a hemiepiphytic
cactus cultivated in 20 countries for its fruit, can help explain the response of its net CO2 …

Medium to large edible cactus fruits are produced by members of subfamily Cactoidae, tribe
Cacteae. They are known in Latin America as pitahaya or pitaya: pitahaya generally refers to …