Editorial

Abstract

EditorialWe deem appropriate to consider as the first volume among the regular publications of the 2014 RBF, the II International Symposium on Fruitculture, highlighting the great potential that the exotic fruit represents to the Brazilian fruitculture.The II International Symposium on Fruitculture, an event promoted by the Brazilian Society of Fruitculture, aimed at specific discussions of exotic fruit growing, a subject that has attracted increasing interest from the producers and consumers worldwide. Therefore, lectures were selected, with the most relevant themes, conducted by international and national authorities, to an audience composed of researchers, professors, producers, undergraduate and postgraduate students and technicians, who discussed during the five days of the event the most different fruit plants and its possibilities as culture and food. Results of researches developed in different regions of Brazil were presented.