Children enjoy novel hybrid fruits during a tasting at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Zaiger Genetics, Inc., internationally acclaimed for developing interspecific fruit, is breeding cherries and plums together in the search for a hybrid cherry-plum, or cherum. The Modesto, California, fruit-breeding company has had success in creating novel fruit from plum and apricot crosses (pluots and apriums). Moreover, they are working to develop commercial selections of the peacotum, a three-way cross of peach, apricot, and plum hybrids. But their latest venture of breeding cherries and plums has exciting potential for commercial growers, according to Dennis Tarry […]