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Show #648: THE PERFECT FRUIT
Guest: Chip Brantley, author of The Perfect Fruit
Subject: Mother nature never does get it just right, and so we keep fiddling with her work until we can grow the perfect fruit—one that could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars. This leads us to ask… What two fruits would you combine to make the perfect fruit?
Topics include the work of the legendary fruit developer Floyd Zaiger; how Zaiger crossed the plum and apricot to create the sweet-tasting pluot; and how the pluot found its way into the commercial marketplace.