Kentucky State’s pawpaw research program featured in National Geographic
Dr. Kirk Pomper, director of Land Grant Programs and dean and professor in the College of Agriculture, Community and the Sciences, and Sheri Crabtree, horticulture research and extension associate, recently discussed Kentucky State University’s research on the pawpaw (asimina triloba) fruit.
Kentucky State 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.
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