Summarized by: Josie Russo
Authors
Stephanie Kay Fong, Joseph Kawash, Yifei Wang, Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese, James Polashock, and Nicholi Vorsa
Tree Genetics & Genomes 17, 4 (2021).…
Summarized by: Josie Russo
Authors
Stephanie Kay Fong, Joseph Kawash, Yifei Wang, Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese, James Polashock, and Nicholi Vorsa
Tree Genetics & Genomes 17, 4 (2021).…
By Josie Russo
Over the last decade, Dr. Juan Zalapa has been working on a puzzle—a 500-million-piece one. Zalapa and others in his team—such as Luis Diaz-Garcia—is working to assemble the ‘Stevens’ cranberry genome in order to…
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By Dr. Massimo Iorizzo, Project Director, North Carolina State University
Soon after I joined the small fruit scientific community in 2015, I realized that the ingredients needed to establish a…
By Josie Russo, University of Wisconsin Madison
The Vaccinium Coordinated Agricultural Project (VacCAP) is a massive undertaking, involving researchers from multiple U.S. academic institutions, USDA research centers, and international…
By Josie Russo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Blueberry harvesting is complicated—a balancing act between a tight, expensive labor market and soft, finnicky fruits.…
By Dr. Amaya Atucha and Josie Russo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Amaya Atucha sat down with Dr. Juan Zalapa to discuss his research on improving cranberry fruit quality traits, and what a more efficient cranberry means for the…
By Dr. Lisa Wasko DeVetter, Washington State University
Dr. Chad Finn was a well-regarded research geneticist and berry breeder tha…
VacCAP team member David Chagne talks about the importance of the blueberry. READ MORE
Check out the poster that was presented at the 2020 Plant and Animal Genome Conference for an overview of VacCAP. READ MORE