Volume 28, No. 1 - January/February 1996

Zaiger Genetics Field Trip: A Lesson in Creation

New varieties and the ways to achieve them are reported by Maria Luz Berrones

Zaiger Genetics: Where From? Where To?

Founder Floyd Zaiger's three children carry on in the greenhouse, the lab and the field, a family story told by Alice Ramirez

The Solanaceae

Classification of this family differs, depending on the taxonomist, writes Ron Kadish

This Mango, What's Its Name?

Tim and Darla Thompson rate 20 mangos for eating quality (This article is on-line.)

Sustainable Agriculture Conferences

Regional conferences meet on February 9

Girdling to Induce Flowering

Alois Falkenstein girdles his lychee and the fruit is large

Letter from Suriname

Eunice Messner and Wim Veer exchange thoughts

Eden in a Mine Shaft

Deep inside the earth some plants grow amazingly well, writes Alice Ramirez

To Tame the Cantankerous Cherimoya

Alice Ramirez chronicles a visit to California Tropics

Growing Fruit in the Inland Empire

A report on growing guavas in an interior valley by William Drysdale

Fruit Exploring on the Internet

Alice Ramirez elicits opinions on akee in cyberspace

CRFG News

CRFG Annual Meeting Report: Workshops
CRFG Business Meeting
Development Fund Report
1995 Index

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