Pawpaw Information Website
Frankfort, Kentucky

 Pawpaw Links

Personnel

Contact Information

On site registration still available for the KSU/OPGA/PPF Pawpaw Workshop to be held on September 6,  2008

2008 Ohio Pawpaw Festival September 13 and 14

Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association

_{PawPaw Foundation}

Recent PowerPoint Presentations on pawpaw, gooseberries and currants, and blackberries

2008 Nursery List

2008 Cultivar List

KSU Reports and Publications

Updated Kentucky Nut Growers Association Website

Pawpaw FAQ

Planting Guide

KSU Organic Agriculture Working Group Website

2nd International Pawpaw Conference Proceedings

Kentucky Farmers Market Program

Pawpaw in the News

Pawpaw Acetogenins

Conferences & Events

Pawpaw Commercial and  Video

Pawpaw Research at Kentucky State University

Description of Fruit and Nutritional Information

Recipes

Photo Gallery

Audio & Video

Organic Production and SARE

Links to other Pawpaw websites

Links to other horticultural and botanical sites

New KSU Grape Website!

 Photograph of 'Potomac' pawpaw fruit cluster and fruit held by Neal Peterson.

Pawpaws in Louisiana!

Praising Pawpaws: LSU Horticulturist Promoting Unique Fruit for Backyard Gardeners

New Pawpaw Articles Available for Download

Pomper, K.W., S.B. Crabtree, D.R. Layne, R. Neal Peterson, J. Masabni, and D. Wolfe. 2008. The Kentucky pawpaw regional variety trial. J. Amer. Pom. Sci. 62:58-69. [PDF]

Pomper, K. W., Sheri B. Crabtree, Desmond R. Layne, and R. Neal Peterson. 2008. Flowering and Fruiting Characteristics of Eight Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) Selections in Kentucky. Journal of the American Pomological Society. 62:89-97. [PDF]

Kobayashi, Hideka, Changzheng Wang, and  K.W. Pomper. 2008. Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Capacity of Pawpaw Fruit (Asimina triloba L.) at Different Ripening Stages. HortScience 43:268–270. [PDF]

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 seed and clonal propagation methods, developing orchard management recommendations, conducting regional variety trials, understanding fruit ripening processes, developing fruit storage techniques, and germplasm collection and characterization of genetic diversity.

USDA National Clonal Repository for Pawpaw at KSU  

Since 1994, Kentucky State University has served as the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR), 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 10 acres at the KSU farm. We are attempting to evaluate the genetic diversity contained in wild pawpaw populations across its native range 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.

Photo of fruit from the pawpaw variety 'Wabash' at KSU on Sept. 14, 2006.  Photo by Kirk Pomper.