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Photograph of KSU-Atwood^TM   pawpaw  fruit. The harvest has started and it is about two weeks ahead of our normal harvest season at Kentucky State University due to hot summer temperatures. August 26, 2010. Photograph by Kirk Pomper.

pawpaw.kysu provides information on how to grow and use fruit from the North American pawpaw tree.

KSU Pawpaw Program

The pawpaw (Asimina triloba) fruit has both fresh market and processing appeal, with a tropical like flavor that resembles a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple. Kentucky State University has the only full-time pawpaw research program in the world as part of the KSU Land Grant Program. Pawpaw research efforts are directed at improving seed and clonal propagation methods, developing orchard management recommendations, conducting regional variety trials, understanding fruit ripening processes, developing fruit storage techniques, and germplasm collection and characterization of genetic diversity.

USDA National Clonal Repository for Pawpaw   

Since 1994, Kentucky State University has served as the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR), or gene bank, for Asimina species (pawpaw), as a satellite site of the NCGR repository at Corvallis, OR. There are over 2,000 accessions (trees) from 17 states that are planted on 10 acres at the KSU farm. We are attempting to evaluate the genetic diversity contained in wild pawpaw populations across its native range so that unique material can be added to the KYSU repository collection; this potentially rich source of useful genetic traits will be used in breeding efforts.

Pawpaw News

San Francisco climate not the best for pawpaw
(San Francisco Chronicle; 8/15/10-note that it should be KSU not UK in article)

Reaching for the Right Pawpaw
(State-Journal; 7/20/10)

Three Nurseries To Sell New KSU Pawpaw Cultivar - KSU-Atwood
(KSU; 7/11/10)

Native paradise: Some unusual plants thrive in Kansas soil
(JLWorld.com; 6/27/10)

May look exotic but pawpaw is native (The Windsor Star, 5/29/10)

Slow food movement-pawpaw (Green Matters, 5/21/10)

Four native fruit trees that could add beauty and tastiness to the garden (Winnepeg Free Press, 5/5/10)

The native pawpaw tree: The Division of Forestry and Kentucky State University have teamed up to offer high-quality pawpaw seedlings. (Land, Air, & Water, 3/31/10)

Forest Production of Pawpaws (Kentucky Woodlands Magazine, 3/31/10)

Purchase pawpaw trees from the KY Division of Forestry that were grown from KSU seed stock! (10/14/09)!

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