Citrus are widely consumed worldwide as juice or fresh fruit, providing important sources of vitamin C and other health-promoting compounds. Global production in 2012 exceeded 86 million metric ...

Liao Zhilue, a native of Huazhou in Maoming city, South China's Guangdong province, collects the pummelo fruit. [Photo provided to npc.gov.cn] Graduating from vocational college in 2015 ...

The mother of the orange, its seed parent, was almost certainly a hybrid that was three-quarters pummelo and one-quarter mandarin, said Fred Gmitter Jr., professor of citrus genetics at the ...

Grapefruit and pummelo contain compounds called furanocoumarins that may affect the blood levels of more than 100 ...

The results proved that bergamot and lemon were derived from citron and sour orange, and grapefruit was a hybrid that originated from a cross between pummelo and sweet orange. The data ...

Chromosomal comparison of DVS_A and DVS_B to pummelo and mandarins showed 97.1% mandarin-origin regions in DVS_A and 87.4% pummelo-origin regions in DVS_B. Nucleotide similarity between DVS_A and ...

Actually, grapefruits are a natural cross between an Asian pummelo and an orange. They were found in the Caribbean and have been hybridized in the ensuing years. The name grapefruit is probably a ...

Central Citrus Research Institute (CCRI) released one variety each of exotic fruits pummelo and flame grapefruit on Friday. The institute had brought the two fruits from California, USA 15 years ...