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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] FW: Trio of New Plums for Consumers
  • Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:25:26 -0700



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From: ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>
Reply-To: ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:14:56 -0400
To: ARS News subscriber <lonrom@hevanet.com>
Subject: Trio of New Plums for Consumers

STORY LEAD:
Trio of New Plums for Spring and Summer
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Marcia Wood, (301) 504-1662, MarciaWood@ars.usda.gov
April 9, 2004
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Three kinds of plump, tasty plums from Agricultural Research Service
tree fruit breeders in California will make fans of this
spring-through-fall stonefruit come back for more. The plums are the
fruit of more than a decade of plant breeding and testing by ARS
geneticist David W. Ramming and colleagues in the Postharvest Quality
and Genetics Research Unit, part of the agency's San Joaquin Valley
Agricultural Sciences Center at Parlier, Calif.

Named Black Splendor, Owen T and John W, each of the new plum varieties
ripens in a different season, giving shoppers more choices of this
healthful fruit.

The juicy, beet-red flesh of Black Splendor plum makes this big fruit
an especially colorful addition to fresh fruit salads. It ripens in
early June, and is both bigger and earlier than the well-known Santa
Rosa plum.

Owen T has blue-black skin with some touches of purple, and sweet,
light-yellow flesh. It is ready to harvest in late June through early
July. Ramming named this plum after Owen Tanner, who was a technician
with the California tree fruit breeding team for more than 30 years.

Ramming named the latest-ripening of the three plums, John W, for the
late John Weinberger, who was a tree fruit and grape breeder with the
ARS research center at its former location in Fresno, and was selected
for the ARS scientific "Hall of Fame."

John W plums have purple skin dusted with light-tan specks, and
luscious orange flesh. This fruit ripens in late August through early
September.

Since first offering these plums to nursery operators, researchers and
others in 2001 and 2002, Ramming has filled requests for more than 1,200
cuttings and more than 50,000 buds, so the plums may begin showing up in
supermarkets this year.

Read more about the research in the April issue of Agricultural
Research magazine, available online at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/apr04/fruit0404.htm

ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research
agency.
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  • [NAFEX] FW: Trio of New Plums for Consumers, Lon J. Rombough, 04/09/2004

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