Ho`oulu ka `Ulu Cookbook: Breadfruit tips, techniques, and Hawaii`s favorite home recipes

Learn how to pick or buy fruit, cook, and prepare wonderful breadfruit dishes!

This new cookbook is essential for both novice and expert breadfruit cooks. It covers how to select fruit that will have the best taste and texture for the dish you are preparing. Then it covers the most important ways to cook breadfruit to eat plain (like potato) or use in various recipes. Finally, it presents 20 recipes selected from the last 25 years of breadfruit cookoffs and cooking contests in Hawai`i, allowing you to pick a dish perfect for any occasion.

Order the book now: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1479307491/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Saturday, October 13th, 2012

Farm and Forestry Production and Marketing Profile for Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)

Diane Ragone
Pp 61-78
Specialty Crops for Pacific Island Agroforestry
C.R. Elevitch (editor)
Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawaii
2011

From Bamboo to Black Pepper, Cacao to Coconut and Tea to Taro-Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands provides detailed cultivation, value-added, and marketing information for 26 of the most important specialty crops for Pacific Islands and other tropical locations.

Specialty crops provide a rapidly growing economic opportunity for farmers and gardeners who are interested in diversifying their crops and who are willing to innovate their production methods, post-harvest processing, and marketing

http://agroforestry.net/scps

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Sunday, May 27th, 2012

Breadfruit: An Old Crop With a New Future

A.M.P. Jones, W.A. Lane, S.J. Murch, D. Ragone and I.B. Cole
Pp 235-239
Comprehensive Biotechnology, Second Edition
Murray Moo-Young et al. (editors)
2011

Breadfruit is an ancient crop that has played a major role in Oceania for thousands of years. One of the major limitations to modern large-scale distribution of the plants outside of Oceania has been the slow, inefficient methods of propagation in conjunction with the persistence of microbial contamination and the associated agricultural import restrictions that limit international distribution. The recent developments described in this article show how biotechnology has been applied to overcome these difficulties enabling rapid, large-scale propagation of disease-free breadfruit trees. This technique has recently made large numbers of trees commercially available for charitable organizations and private customers through Global Breadfruit. Widespread availability of planting material using modern biotechnology will help realize the full potential of breadfruit to increase food security and fight hunger in the tropics.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/728028/description#description

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Sunday, May 27th, 2012

Breadfruit and Its Traditional Cultivation and Use on Pohnpei

Diane Ragone and Bill Raynor
Pp 63-88
Ethnobotany of Pohnpei: Plants, People, and Island Culture
Michael J. Balick (editor)
University of Hawaii Press & New York Botanical Garden Press
2009

Breadfruit is the principal component of indigenous agroforestry systems on Pohnpei, and indigenous agroforestry is a dominant feature of both the island`s landscape and culture, the result of more than two thousand years of development and refinement.

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-5754-9780824832933.aspx

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Friday, July 24th, 2009

Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Breadfruit Research and Development

Diane Ragone and Mary B. Taylor (editors)
Acta Horticulturae 757
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
2007

http://www.pubhort.org/actahort/books/757/

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Friday, July 24th, 2009

Breadfruit. Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg. Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops

Diane Ragone
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IGPRI). Rome, Italy
1997

ABSTRACT: Despite its widespread distribution and use, little work has been done on characterization, evaluation and description of breadfruit germplasm. This publication describes the genetic resources of breadfruit and provides an in-depth look at the current status of breadfruit conservation and the extent of ex situ germplasm collections, especially in the Pacific Islands. Chapters cover the following topics: taxonomy, botany, evolution and domestication, properties and uses, conservation and genetic diversity, breeding, production, ecology, agronomy, and limitations, prospects and research needs. Two appendices detail research contacts and research centres, both by country.

Download file: Ragone_1997_IPGRI_breadfruit.pdf

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Monday, June 8th, 2009

Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit)

Diane Ragone
Pp 85-100
Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands
C.R. Elevitch (editor)
Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawaii
2006

Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry-Ecological, Economic, and Cultural Renewal

http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/index.html

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Artocarpus camansi (breadnut)

Diane Ragone
Pp 101-110
Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands
C.R. Elevitch (editor)
Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawaii
2006

Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry-Ecological, Economic, and Cultural Renewal

http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/index.html

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Artocarpus mariannensis (dugdug)

Diane Ragone and Harley I. Manner
Pp 127-138
Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands
C.R. Elevitch (editor)
Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawaii.
2006

Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry-Ecological, Economic, and Cultural Renewal

http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/index.html

Posted in Books, Monographs, and Book Chapters on Monday, June 1st, 2009