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Ce cédérom reprend les données du "Manuel du planteur d'ananas Bouteille" publié en 2000, auquel s'ajoute une photothèque étendue à d'autres variétés. Il comporte notamment une application destinée à prévoir de manière précise les dates de récolte et donc de mieux planifier la culture

The harvesting of bananas for export is constrained by the need to transport the production by sea to the importing country, which takes 10-20 days from the West Indies to Europe. The fruit must arrive before the start of the climacteric rise. The fruit must therefore be harvested early enough to have a green life (GL, time elapse, in degree-days, between cutting the fruit and the climacteric rise) longer than the transport time. Our aim is to find an indicator of harvesting date which would give rise to a constant GL at harvest. For this purpose, it was assumed that GL depends on fruit maturity and thus on its developmental stage at harvest. Several indicators of development were considered: - the fruit age expressed in degree-days (dd, base temperature 14°C) accumulated since inflorescence emergence, - the relation between GL and pulp organic acid content.