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Jujube Basics and Cultivar Performance in NM

Grafting Jujube Trees

NMSU Extension Publications:

• Jujube training and pruning basics

• Jujube: Chinese date in New Mexico

• Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) grafting
  
  
• Jujube Genotyping with Cultivars from New Mexico and Kentucky in 2019

Peer Reviewed Jujube Publications:

• Jujube Fruit Metabolomic Profiles Reveal Cultivar Differences and Function as Cultivar Fingerprints Shengrui Yao 1,2,*, Dikshya Sapkota 1, Jordan A. Hungerford 3 and Roland D. Kersten 3
  
  
• Genotyping of Jujube (Ziziphus spp.) Germplasm in New Mexico and Southwestern Texas
  Dikshya Sapkota 1, Dapeng Zhang 2, Sunchung Park 2, Lyndel W. Meinhardt 2 and Shengrui Yao 1,3,*
  
• Dynamics of Nutrients in Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) at Different Maturity Stages, Cultivars, and Locations in the Southwest United States
• Preservation of Phenols, Antioxidant Activity, and Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate in Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) Fruits with Different Drying Methods 
  Govinda Sapkota 1, Efren Delgado 2 , Dawn VanLeeuwen 3, F. Omar Holguin 1, Nancy Flores 4 and Shengrui Yao 1,5,*
  

• Early performance of jujube fresh eating cultivars in the southwestern United States.
  Yao, S., R. Heyduck, and S. Guldan. 2019. HortScience 54:1941-1946.

• Ornamental jujube cultivar evaluation in the Southwestern United States.
  Yao, S. and R. Heyduck. 2018. HortTechnology 28:557-561.

• Past, present, and future of jujubes—Chinese dates in the United States.
  Yao, S. 2013. HortScience 48:672-680.

• Jujube, an alternative fruit crop in the Southwestern United States.
  Yao, S. 2016. HortScience 51:1329-1332.

• Jujube phenology, pollen germination and two unique germplasm resources in New Mexico.
  Yao, S. 2018.HortScience 53:23-27.

• Jujube cultivar vitamin C profile and nutrient dynamics during maturation.
  Huang, J.*, Heyduck, R., Richins, R., VanLeeuwen, D., O'Connell, M. A., Yao, S. 2017. ≈HortScience 52:859-867

• Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) flowering and fruiting in the Southwestern United States.
  Yao, S., J. Huang and R. Heyduck. 2015. HortScience 50: 839-846.

• Unique fruit development of ornamental ‘Teapot’ jujube
  Yao, S. 2013. HortTechnology 23:364-368.

• Low temperature is critical in jujube grafting success in frost-prone northern New Mexico.
  Yao, S. 2022. HortTechnology. 33:28-31.

• Shape influence on consumers' willingness to purchase dried jujube fruit.
  Hayes, T. E., Robinson, C., Acharya, R., Flores, N., and Yao, S. (2020). Western Economics Forum, 18(2):141-151.