Plant Breeding

Tropical Foliage Plant Development: Origin of New Cultivars

R. J. Henny and J. Chen

Tropical Foliage Plant Development: Breeding Techniques for Anthurium and Spathiphyllum

R.J. Henny, J. Chen, and T. A. Mellich

Tropical Foliage Plant Development: Breeding Techniques for Aglaonema and Dieffenbachia

R.J. Henny, J. Chen and T.A. Mellich

Multi-Cavity Collection: A Method for Sampling Bulk Solutions from Plug Media

Jianjun Chen, Yangfeng Huang, Cynthia A. Robinson, and Russell D. Caldwell

The UF/IFAS Strawberry Clean Plant Program

Catalina Moyer, Natalia A. Peres, and Vance M. Whitaker

Caladium Cultivars Developed at the UF/IFAS

Z. Deng and B. K. Harbaugh

Improving Strawberry Varieties by Somaclonal Variation

Cheol-Min Yoo, Cheryl Dalid, Catalina Moyer, Vance Whitaker, and Seonghee Lee

Somaclonal variation is a breeding method utilizing natural genetic variation induced by a tissue culture process instead of by hybridization. This offers an alternative to mutation breeding for the introduction of new genetic variations in existing strawberry varieties. The main purpose of this new 5-page publication of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department is to share the potential of this technique with plant breeders in the public and private industries. The secondary purpose is to educate the industry and the public on the scientific background of somaclonal variation. Written by Cheol-Min Yoo, Cheryl Dalid, Catalina Moyer, Vance Whitaker, and Seonghee Lee.

Current Status of Research, Regulations, and Future Challenges for CRISPR Gene Editing in Crop Improvement

Sadikshya Sharma, Kaitlyn Vondracek, Heqiang Huo, Tie Liu and Seonghee Lee

A UF/IFAS numbered peer reviewed Fact Sheet. in support of UF/IFAS Extension program: Citizen awareness of food systems and the environment

Southern land-grant universities create AI centers to encourage faster, accurate solutions to practical problems

Brad Buck

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help feed the world and preserve our natural resources. To maximize the bandwidth of AI, scientists are working together to develop robotics and precision agriculture, use drones effectively and more. Recognizing the strength of collaboration, universities across the South are launching centers where researchers combine brain power and data to help […]

UF scientists finding new way to keep broccoli – and perhaps other vegetables — fresher, longer

Brad Buck

When consumers go to the grocery store, they want their produce, including broccoli, to look, feel and taste fresh. This desire compels University of Florida scientist Tie Liu to study ways to keep vegetables fresh. In newly published research, Liu and his colleagues studied the physiological and molecular mechanisms of two treatments: 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) and […]

Machine-harvestable tomatoes available from UF/IFAS; growers hope cultivars can help lower labor cost

Brad Buck

Ever since Florida farmers have been growing tomatoes, they’ve picked them by hand or hired laborers. It’s painstaking work that might be made easier soon with machine-harvestable tomatoes developed by University of Florida scientists. Now that the varieties are available, growers in Florida’s $400 million-a-year industry hope they can use mechanized harvesting, but doubts remain. […]