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Pawpaws in full bloom in the KSU Pawpaw Orchard on March 23, 2012. Photograph by Kirk Pomper

pawpaw.kysu provides information on how to grow and use fruit from the North American pawpaw tree.

KSU Pawpaw Program

The pawpaw (Asimina triloba) fruit has both fresh market and processing appeal, with a tropical like flavor that resembles a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple. Kentucky State University has the only full-time pawpaw research program in the world as part of the KSU Land Grant Program. Pawpaw research efforts are directed at improving propagation methods, developing orchard management recommendations, conducting regional variety trials, understanding fruit ripening and storage techniques, and germplasm collection and characterization of genetic diversity.

USDA National Clonal Repository for Pawpaw   

Since 1994, KSU has served as the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository or gene bank, for Asimina species (pawpaw), as a satellite site of the NCGR repository at Corvallis, OR. There are over 2,000 accessions (trees) from 17 states that are planted on 12 acres at the KSU farm. We are evaluating the genetic diversity contained in wild pawpaw populations so that unique material can be added to the KYSU repository collection; this potentially rich source of useful genetic traits will be used in breeding efforts.

Pawpaw News

Sweet science: B.C. researchers building a better paw paw plant (Vancouver Sun; 03/16/12)

Indigenous fruit tree primed for comeback (Windsor Star 03/07/12)

PawPaw: Essex County's Next Super Fruit? (OurWindsor.ca; 2/9/12)

Lee Brumlet specializes in growing cultivated persimmons and pawpaws (Evansville Courier & Press; 10/19/11)

In Awe of the Pawpaw (Boise Weekly; 10/12/11)

An Autumn Taste of Pawpaws (Ann Arbor.com; 10/3/11)

Where To Get Your Taste of the Pawpaw (NPR; 9/30/11)

Pawpaw: Rare fruit Inspires Passion and Taste Buds (Mother Nature Network; 9/30/11)

The Pawpaw: Foraging For America's Forgotten Fruit (NPR; 9/29/11)

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