Whole pineapple, breadfruit and starfruit
Nursery greenhouse
Backup of crops by tissue culture
Mauna Kea as seen from our field
Litchi tree with fruit
Mission
The mission of the Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research Unit is to support our stakeholders by safeguarding tropical fruits and nuts for future generations by efficiently and strategically collecting, conserving, regenerating, evaluating and distributing tropical genetic resources and information and by conducting research to enhance agricultural sustainability through improved plant growth and development, value added products and disease resistance and develop improved environmentally sound and economically beneficial practices for sustainable, diversified crop production.Repository Home Page Information
Our Current Crops:
Ananas comosus (pineapple)
Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit)
Averrhoa carambola (starfruit)
Bactris gasipaes (peach palm)
Canarium ovatum (pili nut)
Carica papaya (papaya) and Vasconcellea
Dimocarpus longan (longan)
Litchi chinensis (lychee)
Macadamia integrifolia (macadamia nut)
Malpighia glabra (acerola)
Nephelium lappaceum (rambutan) and N. ramboutan-ake (pulasan)
