Chayote—A Potential Vegetable Crop for Florida

Chayote, known as the vegetable pear, is a nutritious plant with a pale-green, ridged, fleshy fruit with a single seed. Florida’s suitable climate combined with chayote’s excellent taste and nutrition indicate that it could be an economically viable crop for commercial production. The intended audi...

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Main Authors: Yuheng Qiu, Guodong Liu
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Published: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 2022-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/124902
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description Chayote, known as the vegetable pear, is a nutritious plant with a pale-green, ridged, fleshy fruit with a single seed. Florida’s suitable climate combined with chayote’s excellent taste and nutrition indicate that it could be an economically viable crop for commercial production. The intended audience of this new 10-page publication of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department is vegetable growers, Extension agents, certified crop advisors, crop consultants, environmentalists, agricultural policy makers. Written by Yuheng Qiu and Guodong Liu. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1454
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spelling doaj-art-1b00c4a940e74278a11105ed5c24d6462025-02-08T05:42:19ZengThe University of Florida George A. Smathers LibrariesEDIS2576-00092022-12-0120226Chayote—A Potential Vegetable Crop for FloridaYuheng Qiu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4701-6259Guodong Liu1University of FloridaUniversity of Florida Chayote, known as the vegetable pear, is a nutritious plant with a pale-green, ridged, fleshy fruit with a single seed. Florida’s suitable climate combined with chayote’s excellent taste and nutrition indicate that it could be an economically viable crop for commercial production. The intended audience of this new 10-page publication of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department is vegetable growers, Extension agents, certified crop advisors, crop consultants, environmentalists, agricultural policy makers. Written by Yuheng Qiu and Guodong Liu. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1454 https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/124902
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