—sour jujube ( Ziziphus spinosa ). During ancient times in China, people selected plants with large, good tasting fruit from sour jujubes and brought them home to plant ( Qu, 1963 ). Later, most jujube cultivars were selected through seedling selection or
sour jujube ( Ziziphus spinosa ) are the two species found in the United States ( Sapkota et al. 2023a ). Currently, there are ∼100 jujube cultivars in the United States, but none has been formally released with detailed information ( Yao 2013 ). Most
in China ( Guo et al., 1994 ; Shi et al., 2006 ; Wu et al., 2018 ). Bark grafting and cleft grafting were common in top-working to change cultivars ( Li, 2009 ). People in rural areas also graft jujube cultivars to sour jujube ( Ziziphus spinosa
Jujube ( Ziziphus jujuba Mill), also called chinese date, red date, or tsao (zao), is native to China ( Liu, 2006 ; Qu, 1963 ). It originated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and has been cultivated in China for more than 4000
So were purchased from the late Roger Meyer’s family nursery in California in 2011. The scionwood was first grafted onto wild jujube ( Ziziphus spinosa ) sucker rootstocks, which had been planted in 2010 at the New Mexico State University (NMSU
.foodchem.2018.07.102 Sun, Y-F Liang, Z-S Shan, C-J Viernstein, H Unger, F. 2011 Comprehensive evaluation of natural antioxidants and antioxidant potentials in Ziziphus jujuba Mill. var. spinosa (Bunge) Hu ex H. F. Chou fruit based on
Jujube cultivars ( Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) were first imported from China into the United States from 1908 to 1918 by USDA agricultural explorer Frank N. Meyer ( Meyer, 1911 , 1916 ). During the 1920s, the USDA Chico Plant Introduction Station
were planted in 2011. Also in 2011, 30 cultivars were imported from China as scion wood and grafted to wild jujube rootstocks ( Z. spinosa ) that had been planted in 2010 ( Yao et al., 2015 ). Depending on precipitation, trees were irrigated once per
Jujube ( Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) belongs to Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family). Its cultivars were first imported into the United States by Frank N. Meyer from 1908 to 1918 ( Meyer, 1916 ; Yao, 2013 ). Jujube is a deciduous fruit tree with more than 800