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	Floyd Zaiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Floyd Zaiger (1926-) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics.
		Zaiger was often distraught with the limited and simplistic nature of the produce section.
		It troubled him on a daily basis, until it came to him; this world needs a new fruit, an incredible fruit, comprising two already great fruits: the plum and the apricot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd_Zaiger (139 words)

	Zaiger Genetics
		Floyd's initial interspecific rootstock release, Citation, a peach/plum hybrid whose patent is now expired, has become a standard rootstock in California for Pluot®; and Aprium® trees as well as for standard plums and apricots.
		Zaiger Genetics is a deciduous fruit variety breeding enterprise founded by Floyd and Betty Zaiger in 1958.
		Floyd graduated from U.C. Davis with a degree in Plant Pathology and a teaching credential for vocational agriculture.
	www.davewilson.com /z_file/TOC_zaiger.html (1437 words)

	Small Business - Designer Fruit - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For all his experiments Zaiger uses hand-pollination, which requires removing the stamen from one flower—preventing it from self-pollinating and contaminating itself—and applying the pollen of another with an eye-shadow brush.
		Once Zaiger caught a visiting grower taking a piece of his cherry budwood; another time someone entered the property while the family was on vacation and dug up two full-grown pluot trees.
		In the meantime, the Zaigers are working on crossing their newest hybrid: a peacotum and a cherry.
	fortune.com /fortune/smallbusiness/articles/0,15114,832334-2,00.html (1220 words)

	Zaiger's Genetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Zaiger's Genetics, internationally acclaimed for their prolific tree fruit breeding enterprise, is "a Family Organized to Improve Fruit Worldwide".
		Floyd Zaiger is joined in the company by his wife Betty, daughter Leith, and sons Gary and Grant.
		The Zaigers now hold over 90 U.S. Plant Patents and their commercial varieties annually produce millions of boxes of fruit each year in the U.S. alone.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Z/Zaiger's-Genetics.htm (266 words)

	Garden Compass - The Garden Experts
		For 40 years, Floyd Zaiger labored to improve and expand the selection of deciduous fruits for the commercial orchard and home garden markets.
		Although Floyd and Betty still oversee the operation, Leith is responsible for crossing and seed growing, Gary supervises farming and fruit evaluation, and Grant is the laboratory and technical specialist.
		Among the most famous of the Zaiger fruits are the genetic dwarf (3 to 6 feet high) peaches and nectarines such as Honey Babe peach and Nectar Babe nectarine, and the unprecedented new hybrids of complex plum and apricot ancestry, the Pluot and Aprium interspecifics.
	gardencompass.com /Magazine/PastMagazines/2002/JulyAug2002/Laivo.htm (1035 words)

	Lone Tree - Press Room - Gourmet September 2000
		I know that Floyd and Betty Zaiger will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year, and that their daughter, Leith Gardner, and sons Gary and Grant live nearby and actively participate in the family business.
		Zaiger selected the best hybrid seed- lings over several generations of trees, then evaluated the results in test plantings be- fore releasing the first commercial varieties in 1989.
		Zaiger enjoyed similar success with nectarines, which are really fuzzless peaches (not, as some suppose, peach-plum hybrids).
	www.lonetreefruit.com /press/gourmet00.shtml (2693 words)

	Your Produce Man - Produce News
		Floyd’s daughter, Leith, is also helping create the next generation of stonefruit.
		Sold commercially for the first time in 1989, the Pluot (75% plum, 25% apricot) was developed by Professor Pluot, better known to his family as Floyd Zaiger, a California fruit breeder determined to improve upon the plumcot, a 50-50 mix developed a century ago by Luther Burbank.
		In the early days of Zaiger’s work, almost all of the original plum-apricot crosses were sterile, but a few bore fruit, and Zaiger started saving the seedlings of the most flavorful ones for further crossings.
	www.yourproduceman.com /news_aug_1_05.html (1690 words)

	American Fruit Grower: root (stock) of the matter, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		DEVELOPING tree fruit rootstocks is such a lengthy, complex process, says industry legend Floyd Zaiger, that researchers have really only touched the tip of the iceberg.
		Zaiger has tubs with soil that has actually been fortified with nematodes to see which rootstocks are resistant to the pests.
		Zaiger might be best known for crossing the two fruits and coming up with the pluot and aprium.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3824/is_200110/ai_n8953827 (967 words)

	Small Business - Designer Fruit - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS - Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With the yellow flesh of a peach, the texture and juiciness of a plum, and the velvety overcoat of an apricot, the peacotum tastes more like fruit punch than any of its parent breeds and is the first three-fruit hybrid headed for the mass market.
		Floyd Zaiger, a Modesto, Calif., inventor and the most prolific fruit breeder in the world, created the peacotum.
		Yet of all Zaiger's creations—including two others entering commercial testing in 2005: the nectaplum (nectarine and plum) and the white aprium—it's the three-in-one peacotum that stands out as the biggest recent advance in fruit technology.
	fortune.com /fortune/smallbusiness/articles/0,15114,832334,00.html?... (618 words)

	Good Fruit Grower Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Floyd Zaiger inducted to Ag Hall of Fame
		Fruit breeder Floyd Zaiger, known as father of the Pluot, has been inducted into California's Stanislaus County Ag Hall of Fame, according to the Dave Wilson Nursery, primary propagator and licenser for Zaiger's Inc. Genetics.
		Zaiger and his family have created hybrids between fruit species, yielding new fruit types called "interspecifics." Pluot interspecific plums, which are complex hybrids of plum and apricot, are the most widely planted of the Zaiger interspecific fruit inventions.
	www.goodfruit.com /exc/Zaiger.php (130 words)

	CA&ES Award of Distinction Recipients -1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chris Floyd Zaiger started his family business to hybridize several species of deciduous fruit types and rootstocks.
		Zaiger Genetics, Inc., a pioneer and industry leader in hybridizing between fruit species that yield "interspecifics," the complex combination of two or more fruit types.
		Zaiger's nominator commented: "He has been honored by foreign countries, and he received the Wilder Award, the highest in the field of pomology in the United States.
	www.aes.ucdavis.edu /Events/Celebration/1999.htm (1759 words)

	Miniature Fruit and Nut Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Then, breeders like Floyd Zaiger and Fred Anderson (who recently died — his work is now continued by Norman Bradford of LeGrand, California) hand-pollinated the seedlings with the pollen of top-quality varieties.
		Carries the best of the Floyd Zaiger miniature fruit and nut trees (the Garden series and others), as well as many other fruit and nut tree varieties.
		This grower works closely with Floyd Zaiger, often introducing the newest selections and is the major grower of his varieties.
	www.motherearthnews.com /menarch/archive/issues/098/098-026-01.htm (2208 words)

	Pluot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A pluot is a fruit developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger.
		Pluot is a registered trademark of Zaiger's Genetics.
		This page was last modified 16:29, 1 Jun 2004.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Pluot (251 words)

	the Garden Compass: Developing New Fruits
		Floyd Zaiger, honored throughout the world for his contributions to the fruit-growing industry, prepared for his career at the University of California at Davis, graduating with a degree in plant science.
		Among the most famous of the Zaiger fruits are the genetic dwarf (3 to 6 feet high) peaches and nectarines such as Honey Babe peach and Nectar Babe nectarine, and the unprecedented new hybrids of complex plum and apricot ancestry, the Pluot®; and Aprium® interspecifics.
		The most recent offering from Zaiger Genetics and the Dave Wilson Nursery is the Zee Sweet Nugget Pluot®; interspecifics—varieties of Pluot®; interspecifics too small for commercial growers but packing a wallop of flavor.
	www.davewilson.com /homegrown/gardencompass/gc09_jul_aug_02.html (1019 words)

	Food 8
		It was invented by a mad scientist in Modesto named Floyd Zaiger.
		This fruit is proof that abomination, at least from a culinary standpoint, is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
		That my outlook remains sunny I attribute solely to the remarkable fruit-o-vision of Floyd Zaiger.
	www.twistyfaster.com /pages/fotomat/Tasty_Morsels/food8.htm (284 words)

	The Word Spy - pluot
		All of these fruit blends are called interspecific hybrids (1983), a general term that refers to crosses between different but related types of fruit.
		Note that pluot®; and aprium® are trademarks of Zaiger Genetics (filing date for both products: March 28, 1990).
		''We develop new varieties of stone fruit,'' Floyd Zaiger says of Zaiger's Genetics, the business he runs in Modesto, Calif., with his daughter and two sons.
	www.wordspy.com /words/pluot.asp (411 words)

	In Pursuit Of The Pluot
		‘Sold commercially for the first time in 1989, the pluot (70% plum, 30% apricot) was developed by Floyd Zaiger, a California fruit breeder determined to improve upon the plumcot, a 50-50 mix developed a century ago by Luther Burbank.
		If they aren’t closely related enough, the resulting offspring will be sterile, as in the case of a horse and donkey producing a mule.
		According to David Karp, who visited Zaiger’s nursery, almost all of the original plum-apricot crosses were sterile, but a few bore fruit, and Zaiger started saving the seedlings of the most flavorful ones for further crossings.
	www.moscowfood.coop /archive/pluot.html (707 words)

	Premium Pluots
		Here is a break down of how the pluot was created by Floyd Zaiger.
		If you cross a plumcot with an apricot the result is an aprium, which is 75% apricot and 25% plum, also created by Floyd Zaiger.
		The exterior of a pluot resembles a plum fairly closely; shiny smooth skin, round shape.
	www.fruitpatch.net /products/pluot.htm (447 words)

	Pluots
		These fruits were originally invented in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger and are now grown in parts of Washington and California.
		Pluots have a majority of plum parentage and therefore, have smooth skin like plums.
		Approximately 20 varieties of pluots have been developed and bred by Zaiger Genetics.
	www.louiesnursery.com /Pluots.htm (897 words)

	Pluots (washingtonpost.com)
		There are several whimsically named varieties, such as Dinosaur Egg and Dapple Dandy, which come and go throughout late summer.
		The pluot was engineered in 1989 by fruit biologist Floyd Zaiger of Zaiger's Genetics; "We worked on it for more than 20 years before we introduced the first one," said Zaiger.
		HOW TO SELECT: Look for pluots that give readily when gently squeezed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A57081-2004Sep28.html (312 words)

	Fruit Gardener -- January/February 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Zaiger Genetics Field Trip: A Lesson in Creation
		New varieties and the ways to achieve them are reported by Maria Luz Berrones
		Founder Floyd Zaiger's three children carry on in the greenhouse, the lab and the field, a family story told by Alice Ramirez
	www.crfg.org /fg/1996/jan-feb.html (136 words)

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