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• Welcome from the Dean
  • Land Grant Director: Dr. Kirk W. Pomper, Ph.D.
• Baccalaureate Degree in Agriculture, Food, and Environment (AFE)
• Masters of Science in Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
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• Masters of Science in Environmental Studies
• Current Research
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  • Aquaculture
    • Chair of the Division of Aquaculture: Dr. Jim Tidwell
  • Environmental Studies and Sustainable Systems
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    • Contact: Dr. Joanne Bankston
  • Food and Animal Science
• Grant Initiatives
  • Small and Socially Disadvantaged Producers Grant
    • Program Overview
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    • Training and Resources
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Pawpaw

• NCGR Repository at Corvallis, OR
• Contact: Sheri Crabtree or Kirk Pomper
• Just What is a Pawpaw?
• Ohio Pawpaw Festival
• Pawpaws: Where to Find This Unusual Fruit in Lancaster County and How to Use It
• Fourth International Pawpaw Conference a Success!
• Pawpaw is a Tropical Fruit that Actually Grows in Ontario
• Garden Variety: Try the Neglected Pawpaw, a Native Kansas Fruit
• Follow us on Facebook for the latest Pawpaw News & Events
• News Archives
  • Meet the pawpaw, America’s forgotten fruit (12/04/15)
  • It’s pawpaw pickin’ time! (10/29/15)
  • How did Americans forget about the pawpaw (09/14/15)
  • Pawpaw trees promise sweets to savor (09/06/15)
  • Pawpaw Americas forgotten fruit (09/08/15)
  • Pawpaw celebration returns to Lake Snowden this weekend (09/06/15)
  • Little-known tropical fruit pawpaw has sweet taste, interesting history (09/01/15)
  • Local author Andy Moore writes the first book about the fruit called the pawpaw (08/12/15)
  • Gardeners can grow their own pawpaw patch (04/08/15)
  • Ohio Pawpaw Festival on September 11-13, 2015!
  • Picking up Pawpaws: An Evaluation of Consumer Willingness to Sample Unusual Regional Products! (05/22/14)
  • Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association Event Schedule!
  • Papaw, Ohio Climate a ‘Perfect’ Pair (04/06/14)
  • McKenzie: Don’t pooh-pooh the pawpaw (09/13/13)
  • Ohio festival offers tastes of pawpaws (09/12/13)
  • Ohio Pawpaw Fest Celebrates 15 Years With New Attractions (09/11/13)
  • From the ground up: It’s harvest time for pawpaw (09/11/13)
  • Meadowside Nature Center parties with pawpaws (09/10/13)
  • Extension: On its own, pawpaw will not produce fruit (08/15/13)
  • Culinary Specialty Produce Now Shipping Paw Paws (09/10/13)
  • Pawpaw-palooza in Kentucky Monthly (07/18/13)
  • Pawpaw Trees-Suitable for the City or the Country (06/07/13)
  • C&O Canal park crews clearing path near Paw Paw Tunnel following January rockslide (4/02/13)
  • The possibility of the pawpaw: Researcher sees many positives in his “orphan crop” (10/30/12).
  • Kirk Pomper and Ms. Sheri Crabtree were interviewed along with local pawpaw growers. The episode can be viewed on the KET Television Kentucky Life website by following this link to: Program 1805 (10/13/12)
  • Pawpaws (13 photos) from Kentucky Life KET Televison (10/13/12).
  • Not a Banner Year for Pawpaws (The Athens News; 09/12/12)
  • Kentucky Food From New To Timeless: Microgreens and Pawpaws (Savoring Kentucky; 08/31/12)
  • Lexington Chef’s use of pawpaws part a look at regions’ fare (Lexington Hearld Leader; 06/21/12)
  • Pawpaw, a bit of the tropics here (HamptonRoads.com; 08/05/11)
  • All About Pawpaws and Pawpaw Fruit (Grit, 08/10/11)
  • North Carolina Pawpaw Festival is August 27, 2011!
  • Ohio Pawpaw Festival is Sept. 16-18, 2011!
  • Fruits of Labor: Jose Andres is Bring Back PawsPaws (Washington City Pawpaw; 07/70/11)
  • Pawpaw fruit trees thrive in Richmond (nbc12.com; 11/22/10)
  • Photos from the Ohio Pawpaw Festival on September 17-19^th in Albany, Ohio (K. Pomper; 9/20/10)
  • Brothers Cavan and Tom Patterson Getting Wild with Local Food (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; 9/23/10)
  • Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to have…….paw paw! (Lawrence Journal-World and 6News; 9/23/10)
  • Photos from the Ohio Pawpaw Festival (9/23/10)
  • Indianer-Banane: Zierstrauch mit leckeren Früchten or Indian Banana: ornamental shrub with tasty fruit (Geomix; 9/6/10)
  • Setting those bars way high (with pawpaw) (The Philadelphia Inquirer; 9/19/10)
  • San Francisco climate not the best for pawpaw (San Francisco Chronicle; 8/15/10-note that it should be KSU not UK in article)
  • Native paradise: Some unusual plants thrive in Kansas soil
    (JLWorld.com; 6/27/10)
  • The native pawpaw tree: The Division of Forestry and Kentucky State University have teamed up to offer high-quality pawpaw seedlings. (Land, Air, & Water, 3/31/10)
  • Forest Production of Pawpaws (Kentucky Woodlands Magazine, 3/31/10)
  • Everyone’s got pawpaw fever (Maclean’s, 11/02/09)
  • A Taste of the Tropics (Wichita Eagle, 10/18/09)
  • Search the Pawpaw Patch for Sweet Goodness (09/29/09)
  • Westminster Orchard Specializes in Pawpaws (09/19/09)
  • Pawpaw: Sweet, soft and largely ignored (Virginian-Pilot, 09/09/09)
  • Praising Pawpaws: Fruit prized by early Indians and Colonial Americans is poised to make a comeback (Winston-Salem Journal, 08/31/09)
  • Growing with Phipps: Let’s hear applause for pawpaw (Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 08/29/09)
  • Pomper and Crabtree win Shepard Award for Pawpaw Research (6/18/09)
  • KSU student wins award for pawpaw presentation (4/08/09)
  • America’s Forgotten Fruit (Pawpaw) in the Christian Science Monitor (1/29/2009)
  • Pawpaw Production in Germany (click here for  English translation; 1/27/09)
  • KSU Pawpaw Cultivar List with Fruit Photos Updated (1/26/09)
  • Pawpaw Endorsed as Native State Fruit (article in The Rural Rambler on 1/14/09)
  • America’s Forgotten Fruit (Pawpaw) in the Christian Science Monitor (1/29/2009)
  • Pawpaw Production in Germany (click here for  English translation; 1/27/09)
  • Saving Pawpaw Seed for Planting:For more information follow this link!
  • http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-11-28-pawpaw-foodies_x.htm
  • http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/index.htm
  • A passion for pawpaws- Post-Gazette Food Editor, September 18, 2003 
  • Splendid Table Home
• Licensed Propagators for KSU Trademarked Pawpaw Cultivars
  • Blossom Nursery – email: BlossomNursery@gmail.com, http://www.blossomnursery.com
  • Hartmann’s Plant Company – email: info@hartmannsplantcompany.com, http://www.hartmannsplantcompany.com
  • Hidden Springs Nursery – email: hiddenspringsnursery@hotmail.com, http://www.hiddenspringsnursery.com
  • Nolin River Nut Tree Nursery – email: brittain@windstream.net, http://www.nolinnursery.com
  • One Green World/Northwoods Nursery – e-mail: sales@onegreenworld.com, http://www.onegreenworld.com
  • Nash Nurseries – e-mail: info@nashnurseries.com, http://www.nashnurseries.com/index.html
  • Peaceful Heritage Nursery and Farm – http://www.peacefulheritage.com/index.html
  • England’s Orchard and Nursery – http://www.nuttrees.net/, email: nuttrees@prtcnet.org
  • Forrest Keeling – https://www.fknursery.com/, email: mailto:info@fknursery.com
  • Brambleberry Farm – http://www.brambleberryfarm.org/, email: mail@brambleberryfarm.org
  • West Farm – https://farmandfoodguide.com/listing/west-farm/, email: wcwest@gmail.com
• Pawpaw Program Personnel
  • Kirk W. Pomper, Ph.D.
  • Sheri Crabtree, M.Sc.
  • Jeremy Lowe, M.Sc.
• Pawpaw Growing Information
  • Organic Production of Pawpaw. (K.W. Pomper, S. B. Crabtree, and J. D. Lowe. 2010.Kentucky State University Cooperative Extension Bulletin PBI-004.)
  • Forest Production of Pawpaw (K.W. Pomper, and S.B. Crabtree). 2009; KSU Pawpaw Ext. Bull; PIB-003)
  • The Pawpaw Planting Guide (S.C. Jones, R.N. Peterson, T. Turner, K.W. Pomper, and D. R. Layne. 1998; KSU Pawpaw Ext. Bull. PIB-002)
  • 2009 Pawpaw Cultivar List and Fruit Photographs (K. Pomper, S. Crabtree, and J. Lowe, 2009)
  • 2009 Pawpaw Nurseries List (K. Pomper and S. Crabtree, 2009)
  • Results of the Kentucky Pawpaw Regional Variety Trial ( K. Pomper, S Crabtree, D. Layne, N. Peterson, J. Masabni, and D. Wolf,. 2008, J. Amer. Pom. Sci. 62:58-69)
  • Results of the Pawpaw Variety Taste Test at the 2008 Pawpaw Workshop (K. Pomper. 2008, The Kentucky Colonels ‘Kernel’ 2-38:4-5).
  • Pawpaw Tasting Highlights Kentucky State/PawPaw Foundation 2004 Workshop (K. Pomper, 2005, The PawPaw Foundation Newsletter)
  • Should I Practice Within-Cluster Fruit Thinning in Pawpaw? (University of Kentucky-Cooperative Extension Service. FruitFacts, June issue, 6:6-7; K. Pomper, 2008).
  • Growing Pawpaw Organically (University of Kentucky-Cooperative Extension Service. FruitFacts, October issue, 10:3-6; K. Pomper, 2006)
  • Frequently Asked Questions (S. Jones and K. Pomper 2003)
  • The Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) (M.B. Callaway, 1990)
  • The North American Pawpaw: Botany and Horticulture. Horticultural Reviews. Vol. 31:351-384.(K.W. Pomper and D.R. Layne. 2005)
  • The New Crops Fact Sheet (Layne, 1995)
  • Click here for other publications from KSU
  • Pawpaw, New Crops Opportunities Center, University of Kentucky (2008)
  • Pawpaw Production in Germany 
  • The Specialty Crop Profile: Pawpaw, Virginia Tech, Publication Number 438-105 (A. Bratsch, 2006)
  • Pawpaw Production, Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA), (L. Greer, 2001)
  • Growing Pawpaw, Purdue University (B. Bordelon, 2001)
  • PAWPAW: Asimina triloba, California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. (1999)
  • Pawpaws in the Garden/Pawpaws in the Kitchen. The PawPaw Foundation. 1990.
  • Guide to Evaluating Pawpaws (The PawPaw Foundation, 1990).
• Recipes and Uses
  • Cooking with Pawpaws
  • The Edible Pawpaw: A Collection of Delicious and Nutritious Recipes
  • Pies
  • Custards
  • Cookies
  • Cakes & quick breads
  • Ice cream
  • Miscellaneous
• Reports and Presentations
  • Presentations
    • Photographs
    • Complete Program
  • Recent PowerPoint Presentations on pawpaw, gooseberries and currants, and blackberries
  • KSU Reports and Publications
  • Pawpaw Bibliography and Search Tool
  • Evaluation of Genetic Variation Among Native Pawpaw Patches at the Environmental Education Center at Kentucky State University
  • Other KSU Information and Links
    • Other KSU Pawpaw Information
    • Pawpaw Organizations and Supporting Groups
    • Additional Pawpaw Information
    • Historical Perspective of Pawpaw
    • Pawpaw Regional Variety Trial
    • Pawpaw Propagation
    • Pawpaw Genetic Resources
  • Other KSU Pawpaw Information:
    • Pawpaw in the News
    • Pawpaw Acetogenins
    • Pawpaw Research at Kentucky State University
    • Description of Fruit and Nutritional Information
    • Recipes
    • Photo Gallery
    • Audio & Video
    • Organic Production and SARE
    • 2nd International Pawpaw Conference Proceedings
    • Recent PowerPoint Presentations on pawpaw, gooseberries and currants, and blackberries
  • Pawpaw Organizations and Supporting Groups:
    • Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association
    • The PawPaw Foundation
    • North American Fruit Explorers (NAFX)
    • The Northern Nut Growers Association, Inc. (NNGA)
    • Indiana Nut Growers Association (INGA)
    • Kentucky Nut Growers Association Website
    • Midwest Fruit Explorers
    • California Rare Fruit Growers
    • Kentucky Farmers Market Program
    • The Appalachian Pawpaw Growers Association (for commercial pawpaw growers; contact Neal Peterson or Milton Parker for more information
  • Additional Pawpaw Information:
    • How to hand-pollinate pawpaws. Fruit Gardener 29(5):10-11.
    • Pawpaw FactSHEET contributed by Desmond R. Layne
    • Pawpaw (Asimina triloba): a “Tropical Fruit for Temperate Climates” by M. Brett Calloway. From: New Crops (Janick and Simon eds.) Wiley, New York, 1993.
    • Uncommon Fruits with Market Potential—Lee Reich
    • Pawpaw from: Magness, J.R., G.M. Markle, C.C. Compton. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States.
    • Nuts with Commercial Potential for America’s Heartland
    • Pawpaws Provide Potential
    • Growing Pawpaws—Cooperative Extension Service, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. PDF version
    • Evaluation of Various Parts of the Paw Paw Tree, Asimina triloba (Annonaceae), as a Commercial Source of the Pesticidal Annonaceous Acetogenins—Sunil Ratnayake, J. Kent Rupprecht, William M. Potter, and Jerry L. McLaughlin
    • Monthly Variations in Biological Activity of Asimina triloba—Holly. A. Johnson, J. Gordon, and Jerry .L. McLaughlin
    • Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal New Crops Fact Sheet Pawpaw (Asimina triloba): A “Tropical” Fruit for Temperate Climates
    • Evaluation of the Pawpaw Tree, Asimina triloba (Annonaceae), as a Commercial Source of the Pesticidal Annonaceous Acetogenins
  • Links to other horticultural and botanical sites:
    • USDA PLANTS
    • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    • GardenWeb
    • The Cyber-Plantsman
    • Aggie Horticulture at TAMU
    • com
    • Germplasm Resources Information Network
    • National Clonal Germplasm Repository
    • Better Homes & Gardens
    • American Society for Horticultural Science
  • Historical Perspective of Pawpaw:
    • Little, J.A. 1905. The Pawpaw (ASIMINA TRILOBA) A Native Fruit of Great Excellence.G. Swindler, Clayton, IN. [PDF]
    • Peterson, R.N. 1991. Pawpaw (Asimina). Acta Hort. 290:567-600. [PDF]
    • Layne, D.R. 1996. The pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]: A new fruit crop for Kentucky and the United States. HortScience 31:777–784. [PDF]
    • Peterson, R. N. 2003. Pawpaw Variety Development: A History and Future Prospects HortTechnology 2003 13: 449-454.  [PDF]
    • Pomper, K.W. and D.R. Layne. 2005. The North American Pawpaw: Botany and Horticulture. Horticultural Reviews. Vol. 31:351-384. [PDF]
  • Pawpaw Regional Variety Trials:
    • Peterson, R.N. 1986. Research on the pawpaw (Asimina triloba) at the University of Maryland. Northern Nut Growers Assn. Annu. Rep. 77:73-78. [PDF]
    • Pomper, K.W., D.R. Layne, and R.N. Peterson. 1999. The pawpaw regional variety trial, p.353-357. In J. Janick (ed). Perspectives on New Crops and New Uses. ASHS Press, Alexandria, VA. [PDF]
    • Pomper, K. W., D. R. Layne, R. N. Peterson, and D. Wolfe. 2003. The Pawpaw Regional Variety Rrial: background and early data. HortTechnology 13: 412-417. [PDF]
    • Peterson, R. N. 2003. Pawpaw Variety Development: A History and Future Prospects HortTechnology 2003 13: 449-454.  [PDF]
    • Postman, J. D., K. E. Hummer, and K. W. Pomper. 2003. Vascular disease in Oregon regional pawpaw variety trial. HortTechnology 13: 418-420. [PDF]
    • Merwin, I. A., R. Byard, and K. W. Pomper. 2003. Survival, growth, and establishment of grafted pawpaws in upstate New York. HortTechnology 13: 421-422. [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]
    • 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]
  • Pawpaw Propagation:
    • Layne, D.R. 1996. The pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]: A new fruit crop for Kentucky and the United States. HortScience 31:777–784. [PDF]
    • Finneseth, C.L.H., D.R. Layne, and R.L. Geneve. 1998. Morphological development of pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal] during germination and seedling emergence. HortScience 33(5):802-805.
    • Jones, S.C., R.N. Peterson, T.-A. Turner, K.W. Pomper, and D.R. Layne. 1998. Pawpaw planting guide – cultivars and nursery sources. KSU Pawpaw Extension Bulletin 002:1-8.
    • Finneseth, C.L.H., D.R. Layne, and R.L. Geneve. 1998. Requirements for seed germination in North American pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]. Seed Sci. & Technol 26:471-480.
    • Pomper, K.W., D.R. Layne, and S.C. Jones. 2002. Incident irradiance and cupric hydroxide container treatment effects on early growth and development of container-grown pawpaw seedlings. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 127:13-19. [PDF]
    • Pomper, K.W., D. R. Layne, S.C. Jones, and M.G. Kwantes. 2002. Growth enhancement of container-grown pawpaw seedlings as influenced by media type, root-zone temperature, and fertilization regime. HortScience 37:329-333. [PDF]
    • Pomper, K.W., D.R. Layne, and E.B. Reed. 2002. Determination of the optimal rate of slow-release fertilizer for enhanced growth of pawpaw seedlings in containers. HortTechnology 13:397-401. [PDF]
    • Pomper, K. W., D. R. Layne, and S. C. Jones. 2003. Container production of pawpaw seedlings. HortTechnology 13: 434-438. [PDF]
    • Geneve, R. L., K. W. Pomper, S. T. Kester, J. N. Egilla, C. L. H. Finneseth, S. B. Crabtree, and D. R. Layne. 2003. Propagation of pawpaw – a review. HortTechnology 13: 428-433. [PDF]
  • Pawpaw Genetics:
    • Huang, H., D.R. Layne, and R.N. Peterson. 1997. Using isozyme polymorphisms for identification and assessment of genetic variation in cultivated pawpaws [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci 122(4):504-511.
    • Huang, H., D.R. Layne and D.E. Riemenschneider. 1998. Genetic diversity and geographic differentiation in pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal] populations from nine states as revealed by allozyme analysis. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci 123(4):635-641.
    • Huang, H., D.R. Layne, and T.L. Kubisiak. 2000. RAPD Inheritance and diversity in pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci 125(4):454-459.
    • Pomper, K.W., S.B. Crabtree, S.P. Brown, S.C. Jones, T.M. Bonney, and D.R. Layne. 2003. Assessment of genetic diversity of pawpaw varieties with inter-simple sequence repeat markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 128:521-525. [PDF]
    • Huang, H., D.R. Layne, and T.L. Kubisiak. 2003. Molecular characterization of cultivated pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal] using RAPD markers. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci 128(1):85-93.
    • Wang, Y., G.L. Reighard, D.R. Layne, A.G. Abbott, and H. Huang. 2005. Inheritance of AFLP markers and their use for genetic diversity analysis in wild and domesticated pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 130(4):561-568.
    • Pomper, K.W. and D.R. Layne. 2005. The North American Pawpaw: Botany and Horticulture. Horticultural Reviews. Vol. 31:351-384. [PDF]
• Pawpaw FAQ and Contact Information
  • Questions about Pawpaw?
    • crabtree@kysu.edu
    • pomper@kysu.edu
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Pawpaw
    • What is a pawpaw?
    • What do pawpaws taste like?
    • Which cultivars taste the best?
    • Where can I get some fruit to taste?
    • How can I tell if my pawpaws are ripe?
    • Will pawpaws grow in my area?
    • Can I start them from seed?
    • Should I plant seeds, seedlings, or grafted trees?
    • Which cultivars will do best in my area?
    • Where can I buy seeds, trees, or scion wood?
    • Do I need to plant more than one tree to get fruit?
    • Should I plant them in sun/shade/partial shade?
    • Can I transplant trees from my woods?
    • How much chilling do the trees require?
    • What’s the best time of year for grafting pawpaws?
    • How long does it take for a tree to begin bearing fruit?
    • Do pawpaws have medicinal properties?
    • Can a botanical pesticide be made from pawpaw?

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      • Contact: Dr. Robert Durborow
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      • Contact: Dr. Boris Gomelsky
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      • Contact: Dr. Jim Tidwell
    • Water Quality Management
      • Contact: Dr. Robert Durborow
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