Credit: Tyler Jones, UF/IFAS photography
In their quest to develop higher quality mandarins, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers are zeroing in on the traits that will help them breed the best fruit. In a newly published study, Fred Gmitter, a UF/IFAS horticultural sciences professor, above, and his colleagues, including doctoral student Yuan Yu, found genetic markers for fruit quality traits that will be useful in future cultivar-breeding efforts.