Abstract
Farmers in developing countries depend on tropical and subtropical fruit tree crops for their nutritional and livelihood security. Evolving superior varieties with adequate transportation, storage, and production capacities can make a substantial difference in their well-being. The genetic improvement of tropical fruit trees has not been rapid as that of temperate fruit trees and annual horticultural crops. Recent advances in automation, high-throughput sequencing, mass spectrometry, analytic tools such as liquid and gas chromatography, and bioinformatics, can be applied to decode uncharacterized complex genomes, to identify key genes for important traits and to unravel unknown metabolic pathways and physiological mechanisms associated with life events in crops. This chapter highlighted the application of various biotechnological tools for improvement of tropical and subtropical fruit crops.
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