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Article: Tracing Florida mangoes' family tree.(mangoes germplasm research)
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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A highly esteemed traditional crop in India and Southeast Asia for centuries, mangoes have also become well established in tropical regions of Central and South America over the past 500 years. In the United States, mangoes arc grown in Florida and Hawaii, as well as in Puerto Rico.
Introduction of mangoes into Florida and later development of a unique Florida group of mangoes have been thoroughly reviewed by ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station (SHRS) geneticist Ray Schnell in Miami over the past dozen years. In 1980, SHRS was formally named a clonal repository within the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) with ...