The Physalis Project Blog
Guest Post: Traditional Plant Breeding
Welcome to the first entry of The Approaches for Crop Improvement series: Traditional Plant Breeding! Today’s post will look at how traditional plant breeding capitalizes on naturally occurring biodiversity to create the food crops we depend on daily. The...
Project Updates + Physalis in the Wild
A Project UpdateGreetings Everyone! Can you believe it is already the last week of April? Though it has been a rainy and snowy month here in Upstate NY, we have started to see glimmers of Spring sunshine, making us hopeful for a warmer month to come! Our...
Approaches for Crop Improvement Blog Series
The following is a guest post by Matthew Szarzanowicz to begin a special blog series "Approaches for Crop Improvement".Approaches for Crop Improvement: An overviewIf there is one thing that unifies us, it is our daily need to consume food. Human history...
Project Updates: March 2020
Greetings,We hope you are all staying well and are looking forward to the coming Spring garden season. I just wanted to check in and see how things are going with your seeds and give an update on the project.First off, we were delighted by the amount of...
Getting Started: Citizen Science 2020
Welcome! To our new blog subscribers: Welcome! We hope that you will enjoy following along with our project. We use this blog to share project updates as well as other Physalis related content. Feel free to check our some of our past posts here. Getting Started With...
Physalis Improvement Project: Citizen Science 2020 + USGS Native Bee Lab
Citizen Science 2020: Join Now! Grow plants that produce edible fruit in your home garden Submit photos to help us track pests and pollinators Follow along with our blog and follow us on twitter @PhysalisProject Growing instructions provided Available to anyone...
The Breakdown of Self-Incompatibility: What happens after pollination?
The Breakdown of Self-Incompatibility: What happens after pollination? The following is a guest post from Chelsea Pretz, a PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Chelsea is interested in general taxonomy and nomenclature of the Physalis, along with the...
Physalis: Growing Season Length
With winter in full swing in Ithaca, it has come time to wrap up our first Physalis field season. Being that it was our first time growing groundcherry and goldenberry outside in a field setting, we didn't know what to expect. One thing we were interested in was the...
Physalis Event 2019
Thank you to all who joined us for our event Physalis: From the Garden to the Table! It was an opportunity for us to thank our participants as well as share a little bit about this year's Physalis Improvement Project, all while enjoying Physalis foods! Dishes...
Project Update: Consumer Preference Test
Greetings everyone!August has been a busy month for us out in the Physalis field. Our groundcherries appeared to reach peak production levels the first week of August, and our goldenberries steadily produced for all of August. This was great news as we had scheduled a...
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