2nd International Pawpaw Conference Proceedings and other articles
Organic Production and SARE
The PawPaw Foundation
Pawpaw Bibliography
Links to other Pawpaw web sites
Links to other horticultural and botanical sites
Served on the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative (SCRI) grant panel. I reviewed 16 proposals for the April 5-8, 2010 panel meeting in Washington, DC.
Evans-Allen collaborative project with Dr. Kim Hummer (USDA, Corvallis, OR) in KSU USDA Pawpaw repository efforts in germplasm evaluation.
o Pomper visited the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, OR, on March 11, 2010 and met with Dr. Kim Hummer regarding entering all pawpaw accessions into the new global GRIN germplasm system for the KSU's repository collection. Pomper and Crabtree also participated in a training session in Corvallis on how to enter pawpaw germplasm data into the USDA GRIN database system.
Dr. Joseph Postman (USDA Corvallis, OR) is a collaborator with KSU on a USDA grant on research efforts and in the evaluation fire blight resistant quince.
Collaborated with Dr. Gayle Volk, USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, regarding pawpaw seed storage and germination and cryopreservation of pawpaw buds.
I am an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky.
We formed a new collaborative relationship with Dr. Shawn Mehlenbacher in 2010, hazelnut breeder at Oregon State University, to test his latest hazelnut releases in Kentucky. We will plant these trees in March 2011.
Evans-Allen (EA) collaboration with Dr. John Clark of the University of Arkansas blackberry breeding program and Dr. John Strang, University of Kentucky, to test advanced selections of primocane fruiting selections that could have improved storage and shipping characteristics.
EA collaboration with Dr. Barbara Liedl, West Virginia State University, CBG Biotechnology collaborator and reviewer of Blackberry and Pawpaw extension materials from the KSU Horticulture laboratory.
EA collaboration with Dr. Patrick Conner, University of Georgia, in testing winter hardy Muscadine selections at the KSU farm.
EA, SARE, and state grant collaboration with Drs. Mark Williams and Douglas Archbold of UK, Lexington, KY., with an organic rootstock trial, and post-harvest physiology of pawpaw.
EA collaboration with Dr. Robert Geneve, UK, Lexington, propagation of pawpaw in tissue culture.
CBG Cooperators for new Pawpaw and Sorghum Mobile Kitchen Processing Grant are: Dr. Tim Woods, Ag Econ at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Mike Parker, Extension Horticulture-North Carolina State University, Dr. John Strang, Horticulture-UK.
Tim Sheehan and the Kentucky Division of Forestry for the production of pawpaw seedling for distribution by the Commonwealth. Kentucky Division of Forestry has entered into an agreement with KSU to obtain high-quality pawpaw seed and to sell seedlings to the public.
A trial of five eastern filbert blight resistant hazelnut cultivars was distributed to eight nut growers in Kentucky (McLaughlin, Hammett, Ray, Hedgespth, Brittain, Henson, Hines, and Day) in April 2011 is
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