By Josie Russo, Amaya Atucha, and Lisa Wasko DeVetter
When you hear the term “fruit quality”, what comes to mind? Quality is often a subjective term. Fruit quality may mean something different to everyone—especially a breeder, a…
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By Josie Russo and Amaya Atucha
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Stephanie Kay Fong, Joseph Kawash, Yifei Wang, Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese, James Polashock, and Nicholi Vorsa
Tree Genetics & Genomes 17, 4 (2021).…
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By Josie Russo and Amaya Atucha
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…
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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…
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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…
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By Josie Russo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Blueberry harvesting is complicated—a balancing act between a tight, expensive labor market and soft, finnicky fruits.…
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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…
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By Dr. Lisa Wasko DeVetter, Washington State University
Dr. Chad Finn was a well-regarded research geneticist and berry breeder tha…
