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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
    • FEDERACION NACIONAL DE CAFETEROS DE COLOMBIA
  • Management of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawaii with Emphasis on Biological Control
    • 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
    • UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, HONOLULU, HI
  • Development of a Rapid Method to Discriminate Sterile Released Medfly from Wild Flies Without Dye Marking using Near-infrared Hyperspectral Imaging
  • Sustainable and Profitable Production of Specialty Crops in a Changing Environment
  • Development of Protein Food Odor-based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
  • Management of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawaii with Emphasis on Biological Control
  • Establishment of an Entomopathogenic Endophyte in Macadamia for Managing the Invasive Macadamia Felted Coccid in Hawai'i
  • Development of Protein Food Odor Based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
  • Postharvest Treatments and Functional Nutrients Studies of Hawaii Tropical Commodities
  • Identification of Oriental Fruit Fly Odors to Aid Detector Dog Training
  • Advanced Technologies for Tropical Invasive Pest Management in Hawaii
  • Development of Protein Food Odor Based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
  • Capacity Building for Bioeconomy Technologies in Hawaii
  • Microbial Indicators of Soil Health and Plant Productivity for Hawaii Agroecosystems
    • 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)
    • UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, ARLINGTON
  • Development of User Friendly Ethylene Antagonists for Floricultural Crops
    • USDA, APHIS, PPQ, ER, RALEIGH, NC
  • Advancing Male Annihilation Technique for Invasive Cuelure-Responding Fruit Flies
    • USDA, APHIS, PPQ, S&T, RALEIGH, NC
  • Development of Protein Food Odor-based Chemical Lure for Female Oriental Fruit Fly
  • Development of a Rapid Method to Discriminate Sterile Released Medfly from Wild Flies Without Dye Marking using Near-infrared Hyperspectral Imaging
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mass Rearing of the Coffee Berry Borer and its Parasitoid Phymastichus coffea for Release as a Biological Control