Volume 48 Number 3 Article 1 Pages: 134-136
Year 1994 Month 7
Title: 'Reyna' (syn. 'Alfajayucan') is the Leading Cactus Pear Cultivar in Central Mexico
Authors: C.M. Jacobo and S.P. Gonzalez
Citation
Abstract:
National cactus pear (Opuntia amyclaea
Tenore) consumption is dominated by the white
fleshed variety 'Reyna' or 'Alfajayucan,' which is
an alternative crop for regions regularly affected
by drought, where chronic losses in traditional
crops such as maize, beans, wheat and barley
are serious economic hardship to farmers.
Its
wide range of adaptation, stability, and out
standing fruit quality expressed as size, thin
peel, reduced seed number, juiciness and sweetness, has made it the most popular variety
among growers and consumers, iiowever, its
relatively thin peel demands special management practices after harvest.
Even though
'Reyna is susceptible to Mternaria spp ('Fiebre
del oro') and to low winter temperatures, it
accounts for 36$ of the cactus pear production
in Mexico (4).
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