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Photograph of 'Potomac' pawpaw fruit by K. Pomper. 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.
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Questions about pawpaws? Contact Sheri Crabtree at
sheri.crabtree@kysu.edu or telephone #
502-597-6375 Pawpaw Program questions? Contact Dr. Kirk Pomper at:
kirk.pomper@kysu.edu
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