Jujube is a popular dried fruit in China and other parts of Asia and the Caribbean. Chinese people alone produce more than four million tons of jujubes each year, with dry jujubes accounting for 80 ...

A website bearing the title “Gardening Know How” refers to the jujube tree as an “exotic”, which is certainly true around Tehama County. We were introduced to this tree through Martin’s Garden, a ...

A new study has unveiled the genetic mechanism controlling citric acid content in jujube fruit, identifying a natural mutation in the promoter of the ZjACO3 gene. This mutation is strongly associated ...

Question: I love to grow unusual varieties of fruits and vegetables. Can you recommend any fruit trees that would grow well in our area and whose fruit is not readily available in grocery stores or ...

Last week I wrote about the Japanese raisin tree, a plant few Americans are familiar with, but a fruit tree worth cultivating in Florida. Also worthy of space in our landscapes is the jujube, a ...

You may have walked by the jujubes at the farmers market and thought, “Aren’t jujubes a candy?” But jujubes — or Chinese dates, as they are sometimes called — are one of the oldest fruits in the world ...

Bernd Gronert doesn’t have a clue whether the delicate little tree he’s just planted at his fruit farm in Ridgeville will thrive. But if it doesn’t succumb to shade or snow, Charlestonians in a few ...

COLLEGE STATION -- Several hands raised when asked at the annual Texas Fruit Conference who had acreage of jujube. "What were you thinking?" presenter Bill Adams said. Adams, a retired Texas A&M ...

Hear the word “jujube,” and your thoughts might turn to the classic candy. But over the next several weeks at your local farmers markets, you’ll probably spot mounds of fresh fruit by the same name.

ITHACA, NY--The high quality genome sequence of the dry jujube, along with sequences from trees throughout its range, have illuminated the domestication history of this ancient fruit tree, which ...