Tag: Juan Zalapa
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Posted on May 16, 2023
The First Report of Fertile Andean Blueberry – American Cranberry Hybrids Has Been Published
In Fertile Intersectional F1 Hybrids of 4x Andean Blueberry (Vaccinium meridionale) and 4x American Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)1 , authors Mark Ehlenfeldt, James Polashock, Nicholi Vorsa, […]
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Posted on September 14, 2022
The Development and Evolution of Cranberry Genetic Profiles: Perry Red, or Crowley, That Is the Question.
The USDA Cranberry Genetics and Genomics Lab (CGGL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison group began compiling genetic fingerprinting data in 2011. Since then, they have […]
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Posted on June 7, 2022
Genetic Fingerprinting at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station: Part 2
After the cultivars present in each bed at the newly-dedicated Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station were fingerprinted and named (see CCMJ 35.2), Dr. Zalapa’s lab was […]
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Posted on May 17, 2022
Genetic Fingerprinting at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station: Part 1
Cultivar contamination—whether by sport seeds that germinated from an unharvested berry, or by impure cuttings used for propagation when a bed was planted—prevents cranberry growers […]
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Posted on April 27, 2022
Three Years’ Growth at WCRS Breeding Plots
Juan Zalapa and his team are proud of the diversity they’ve been able to plant at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station. In three years of […]
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Posted on September 29, 2020
We’re Checking the Yield on Our Trials! Here’s What To Look Forward To at Cranberry School 2021
As we put on our waders to analyze yields our trials, we wanted to let you start building excitement to discover what we’ve learned this […]