Total area devoted to growing commercial blueberries in North America is approx. Current North American total annual production of commercial blueberries approaches 140,000 t, with approximately 60% of that being cultivated (standard highbush, southern highbush, half-high, and rabbiteye) blueberries and about 40% being the managed wild, or semicultivated, lowbush blueberries. North America is the major producer of blueberries. Parentage and (5) the rabbiteye types (6x), which are all wild selections andīlueberry is a high value crop which can thrive on acidic, imperfectly drained sandy soils, once considered worthless for agricultural crop production. Lowbush-highbush hybrids, usually involving V. Half-high types (4x), which are species hybrids or backcross derivatives of Their parentage (3) the southern highbush types (4x), which are predominantlyĭarrowi in their parentage, as well as V.
corymbosum wild selections and hybrid cultivars, often with small Sapp to hisĬommercially grown blueberries can be divided into five major groups of threeĭifferent ploidy levels: (1) the lowbush types (2x and 4x), which includeĬultivars (2) the highbush types (4x), which include V. Efforts to domesticate rabbiteye blueberry beganĪround 1893 with the transplantation of native seedlings by M.A. The first commercial fruit from hybrid highbush In the early 1900s through the efforts of USDA botanist F.V. Domestication of the highbush blueberry (mainly V. Commercial lowbush blueberry production, mainly V. Wild lowbush blueberry plants were probably theįirst blueberries to be cultivated, with native North Americans burning the Varying degrees, and maintained between 2.0 and 4.0 m.īlueberry has been domesticated most recently, having been accomplished entirely M highbush plants are crown forming and generally maintained between 1.8 andĢ.5 m rabbiteye plants are crown forming, but also are notable for suckering to Lowbush plants are rhizomatous with stems from 0.30 to 0.60 pallidum occurring atĬommonly grouped according to stature and referred to as the lowbush, highbush,Īnd rabbiteye types. Simulatum Small), and 2 hexaploid species ( V. Tenellum Ait.), 6 tetraploid species ( V. Species includes a total of 7 diploid species ( V. The most recent classification of the Cyanococcus Section are often called the “true” or cluster-fruited blueberries. Introductory Information Botany and HistoryĪll cultivated blueberries belong in the section Cyanococcus Stores EST data as well as gene expression data related to blue berries. Home of the Blue Berry Genomic Database (BBGD). Laboratory, ( Fruit lab) at the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA-ARS),īeltsville Agricultural Research Center ( BARC) in Beltsville, MD.
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