1996 Professional Association 
for Cactus Development Journal

Table of Contents

Welcome Address from the FAO Cactus Net
Paolo Inglese

Uses of Cactus for Livestock Feed

Cactus as a Resource for Cattle and Wildlife
Bill Maltsberger 

A Survey of Forage Uses of Cactus in Northern Mexico
J. J. López G., A. Rodríguez G., L. Pérez R., and J. M. Fuentes R.

Breeding and Genetic Improvement of Cactus Varieties

Cactus Pear (Opuntia spp. Cactaceae) Breeding for Fruit Production
Candelaria Mondragon-Jacobo and Bruce B. Bordelon

Somatic Embryogenesis in Threatened Cactus Turbinocarpus pseudomacrochele(Buxbaum & Backeberg)
Laurelena Torres-Muñoz and Benjamín Rodríguez-Garay

Microscopic Analysis of Polyembryony in Opuntia ficus-indica
Cecilia Vélez-Gutiérrez and Benjamín Rodríguez-Garay

Cross-Hybridization and Seed Germination in Opuntia Species
X. Wang et al.

Medical Aspects of Cactus

Opuntia and Metabolic Control Among Patients with NIDDMChristine Aguilar and Gilbert Ramirez

Perspective of the Cactus Pear and Nopalito Grower Prickly Cactus 2010: A Prospective Viewesus Fuentes-Rodriguez and Marielena Murillo-Soto

Economic Assessments of Cactus Fruits and Nopalitos

The World Cactus-Pear Market
Pablo Ramírez Moreno and Claudio Flores Valdéz

Cooperative Program with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Cactus Net Agroindustrialization Program Food Products from Cladodes and Cactus Pears
Carmen Sáenz H.

An Overview of Products from Cactus Pears
Jay McCarthy

Cactus Pear Products at D’Arrigo Bros
Ron Bunch

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Cactus Net Activities
Judith Ochoa de Cornelli

Toward a Cactus Genome Project: Utilizing Information from Well-Studied Model Plants to Map the Opuntia Chromosomes
Andrew H. Patterson and Christine Richardson

Marketing Roundtable
Karen Caplan et al.

Guidelines for Authors 

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