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Pollination Methods: Carrots and Beets
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Carrots and beets are both colorful root vegetables with a similar life cycle. So even though they are very different plants, the strategies you need to take to breed carro...
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Fields of Study: Apple Breeding
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Have you ever eaten a Honeycrisp Apple, and wondered where it came from? Meet Jim Luby, an apple breeder at the University of Minnesota, who helped develop and release this...
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Pollination Methods: Peppers
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What does sweet baby bell and that spicy habanero have in common? Both are peppers, but both are different species. Did you know that they can still be crossed with each ot...
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Fields of Study: Watermelon Breeding
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Have you ever eaten one of those small PureHeart seedless watermelons, and wondered who made it? Have a look at the next installment of Fields of Study with Xingping Zhang,...
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Pollination Methods: Solanum (Part 2)
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You may think that tomatoes and potatoes have little in common, especially since the parts we eat look nothing like each other. But in fact they are very similar, and belon...
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Pollination Methods: Solanum (Part 1)
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You may think that tomatoes and potatoes have little in common, especially since the parts we eat look nothing like each other. But in fact they are very similar, and belon...
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Pollination Methods: Cucurbits
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What do cucumbers, watermelons, and zucchini all have in common? They're Cucurbits! Learn about the different kinds of cucurbit species that we grow, where they came from, ...
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Fields of Study: Switchgrass Breeding
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There is a renewed interest in growing plants for producing ethanol and other biofuels, but the crops we grow may not be well suited to that purpose. A prairie grass called...
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Fields of Study: Pepper Breeding
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That spicy jalpeño. Those sweet bell peppers at the Farmer's Market. Chances are, an expert plant breeder was behind that captivating capsicum that you're eating. Watch Dea...
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Fields of Study: Corn Breeding
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Why does sweet corn taste so good? Corn breeders like Professor Bill Tracy breed and select them from thousands of different corn plants to find that one that everyone will...
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