Organic Pineapple Working Group

[Organic Pineapple Working Group <opwg AT lists.ibiblio.org>]

Dear Colleagues:

The 17th issue of Pineapple News is currently under preparation.  As of the date of this email, I have received only one contribution for the newsletter and have two other contributions promised.

One of the contributions will come from Dr. Park Nobel, a distinguished biophysical plant physiologist and popular author of books on agaves and cacti as well as a world's authority on the ecophysiology of Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants.  I asked Dr. Nobel to write a brief note on this metabolic pathway used by pineapple as well as the plants he studies, mainly agaves and cacti. This is timely, as his new book, "DESERT WISDOM/AGAVES and CACTI: CO2, Water, Climate Change (iUniverse)" has just appeared. This book, which is only $16.95 in softcover and $6.00 as an ebook, describes the CAM pathway in down-to-earth language as well as considers the responses of plants to environmental conditions, including those accompanying global climate change. You can check it out on his website, www.eeb.ucla.edu/nobel.

Please plan to contribute research notes, research reports (suggested length of four pages of 12 point type, not including figures and tables), industry and country reports, etc. to the newsletter.  If you desire editorial help, please contribute material to me no later than March 1, 2010.  For all others, please email a statement of your intent to contribute by March 1, 2010.

For those planning to present a paper at the 7th International Pineapple Symposium, you can submit a condensed version of your work to Pineapple News and if acceptable to the editorial committee, also have your full article published in the proceedings of the meeting.  Information on the 7th International Symposium can be obtained at https://anjungnet.mardi.gov.my/Conference.nsf/PineApple_symp_prog?OpenPage.

Pineapple News presently goes to about 550 researchers, growers and "friends" of pineapple in 81 countries and territories.  Share your work or news with the readers of Pineapple News, many of whom will not be attending the symposium for a wide variety of reasons.

With best regards,
Duane

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Duane P. Bartholomew, Ph.D., Agronomist emeritus
Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1910 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822
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