The transgenic papaya “SunUp” was developed in the 1990s and was widely publicized because of its ability to resist the papaya ringspot virus. Although researchers from the Ming group had identified ...

Papayas have extra copies of genes that make them sweet and nutritious, researchers reported on Wednesday in a study that can help shed light on how flowering plants evolved. They published the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Papayas have extra copies of genes that make them sweet and nutritious, researchers reported on Wednesday in a study that can help shed light on how flowering plants evolved.

Two screens of the Pic-a-Papaya app, developed by Scot Nelson and Richard Manshardt from the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, are shown. The app is ...

The International Papaya Genome Consortium, led by researchers at the University of Hawaii have announced the completion of the Papaya Genome Sequencing Project. The two year effort utilized SGI Altix ...

Papaya (Carica papaya L.) originated and was domesticated in Central America. Transgenic papaya resistant to papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) saved the Hawaiian papaya industry from collapse and is a ...

In the early 1990s an outbreak of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) in the papaya groves in the Puna district of Hawaii caused severe damage to an important crop. Since then, the planting of two transgenic ...