Caribbean Forbidden Fruit: Grapefruit’s Missing Link with the Past and Bridge to the Future?
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1990.44.1.41Abstract
A single introduction of grapefruit ( Citrusx paradisiMacfadyen) into Florida from the West Indies in 1823 is identified as the original source of all known grapefruit germplasm. Essentially all grapefruit cultivars in the United States are bud sports or nucellar seedlings derived from this single introduction. A heterogeneous population of grapefruit-like Citrusknown as “forbidden fruit,” recently rediscovered in the eastern Caribbean region, may provide a valuable source of genetic diversity for grapefruit cultivar development.
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