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University Of California Citrus Variety Collection
The UCR Citrus Variety Collection (CVC) is one of the most important collections of citrus diversity in the world. It is used for research, plant breeding, and educational extension activities on the UC Riverside campus in Riverside, California. Holdings The collection is composed of over 1000 accessions, planted as two trees of each of various types of citrus and citrus relatives. The collection largely comprises accessions within the genus ''Citrus'', the remaining types are included among 28 other related genera in the Rutaceae subfamily Aurantiodeae. The collection consists of approximately on the UCR campus, at the South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine, California, and at the Coachella Valley Agricultural Research Station in Thermal, California. It includes accessions that were first introduced in the early 20th century, as well as varieties brought in over time from various curators, and newer varieties that were more recently developed by breeding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citrus Experiment Station
The University of California Citrus Experiment Station is the founding unit of the University of California, Riverside campus in Riverside, California, United States. The station contributed greatly to the cultivation of the citrus production, orange and the overall agribusiness, agriculture industry in California. Established February 14, 1907, the station celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007. The University of California Citrus Experiment Station The Rubidoux Laboratory The Southern California "citrus belt" developed rapidly in the 1870s after experimental Orange (fruit), navel orange plantings were conducted in Riverside, California, Riverside, using cuttings introduced from Bahia, Brazil. Within two decades commercial orange groves stretched eastward from Pasadena (CA), Pasadena to Redlands (CA), Redlands beneath the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino mountains. A citrus grower named John Henry Reed is credited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
