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Devoted to the Advancement of Asimina triloba,
North America's Largest Native Edible Fruit

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 Current PPF President Neal Peterson examining  fruit at the 2004 Ohio Pawpaw Festival.

The PawPaw Foundation
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and development of Asimina triloba as a new fruit crop for American farmers and consumers. The Foundation seeks to reacquaint Americans with this distinctively native fruit, and to lay the groundwork for a pawpaw revival by promoting scientific research in the areas of pawpaw breeding, growing, managing, harvesting, and use. The Foundation believes that, with adequate research and development, pawpaws will be as commonplace as kiwis and mangos are today, and that the pawpaw tree will become as valued a part of the domestic garden as the apple and pear.

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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]