Citrus variety update Dave Monks Renewed for five years 2018 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Citrus variety update Dave Monks

Renewed for five years

2018 visitors 166 visitors ~30 major citrus industry groups Sunkist Wonderful BioGold ACIAR Hort Innovation IP Australia

Valencia Navel Mandarin Grapefruit Midknight Rayno 91-03-04 Star Ruby Ruby Glen Ora 88-2 Sweet sunrise McClean Witkrans Lavalle Benny Weipe

2017/18 Topworked Italian Lemon Star Ruby Grapefruit (early x2, late) MJR 11 and 12 (early Nova) H2 (seedless Stella), Honey Bee Greenwood navel 2x local Afourer selections Gusocora Valencia

Prospects for 2018/19 Kinnow LS (nuleaf) Daisy Seedless (nuleaf) Sugar Belle (ANFIC) C4-15-19 Tangerine (ANFIC) Tamandra navel (local) M8 (CSIRO)

31 st Aug 2018 24 th June 2016 Colour break: 3 May, Full colour: 14 Aug

12 th June 18 Villa 11 Kirkwood Red Cara Cara

Cara Cara navel maturity comparison (note: rootstock Tri vs. Cit.) At Cara Cara Harvest (Mid June 2018) Variety Juice Brix Acid% B:A BrimA % Cara Cara (Cit.) 50 12.6 0.93 13.6 147 Villa 11 (Tri.) 52 11.9 1.09 10.9 125 15 th August 2018 Villa 11 (Tri.) 52 12.8 0.82 15.6 157

Acknowledgements  This project has been funded by Hort Innovation, using the Hort Innovation Citrus Fund research and development levy , co-investment from NSW Department of Primary Industries and contributions from the Australian Government. Hort Innovation is the grower-owned, not-for-profit research and development corporation for Australian horticulture.  Troy Witte  Graeme Sanderson