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Collaborations

The Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research has a long and productive history of collaborative research involving stakeholders.

Current collaborators and projects:

ANIMAL AND PLANT QUARANTINE AGENCY (APQA)
  • Development of Ethyl Formate and Irradiation Combination Treatment and its Application on Spotted Wing Drosophila and Mealybugs
    • MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BOZEMAN
  • Improving the Sustainability of Avocado Lace Bug Management (Psuedocysta perceae) through Economic Threshold Analysis
    • SYNERGISTIC HAWAII AGRICULTURE COUNCIL, HILO
  • Improving Soil Fertility and Plant Health on Smallholder Coffee Farms in Central America and Hawaii
  • CoffeeMD: Using AI to Identify and Remediate Coffee Pests, Diseases, and Nutrient Deficiencies
    • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, ARLINGTON
  • Development of User Friendly Ethylene Antagonists for Floricultural Crops
    • UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, HONOLULU, HI
  • Systems approaches to eliminate pests of concern to the Hawaii Ornamental Export Industry
  • Capacity Building for Bioeconomy Technologies in Hawaii
  • Microbial Indicators of Soil Health and Plant Productivity for Hawaii Agroecosystems
  • Development of Protein Food Odor-based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
  • Advanced Technologies for Tropical Invasive Pest Management in Hawaii
  • Sustainable and Profitable Production of Specialty Crops in a Changing Environment
  • Postharvest Treatments and Functional Nutrients Studies of Hawaii Tropical Commodities
  • Demonstrating Bioeconomy Technologies for the Tropics
  • Systems Approach for the Management of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawaii and Puerto Rico with Emphasis on Biological Control (UH-Manoa)
  • Development of Protein Food Odor Based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
    • UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, SAN JUAN, PR
  • Systems Approach for the Management of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawaii and Puerto Rico with Emphasis on Biological Control (Puerto Rico)
    • UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, ESTACION EXPERIMEN, SAN JUAN, PR
  • Systems Approach for the Management of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawaii and Puerto Rico with Emphasis on Biological Control (Puerto Rico)
    • USDA, APHIS, PPQ, ER, RALEIGH, NC
  • Advancing Male Annihilation Technique for Invasive Cuelure-Responding Fruit Flies
    • USDA, APHIS, PPQ, S&T, RALEIGH, NC
  • Mass Rearing of the Coffee Berry Borer and its Parasitoid Phymastichus coffea for Release as a Biological Control
  • Systems Approach for the Management of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawaii and Puerto Rico with Emphasis on Biological Control
  • Establishment of an Entomopathogenic Endophyte in Macadamia for Managing the Invasive Macadamia Felted Coccid in Hawai'i
  • Mass Rearing of the Coffee Berry Borer and its Parasitoid Phymastichus Coffea for Release as a Biological Control
  • Development of Protein Food Odor Based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit fly
  • Identification of Oriental Fruit Fly Odors to Aid Detector Dog Training
  • Development of Protein Food Odor Based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
  • Development of Host Fruit Odor Based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly