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02/22/2023	Grow Site	Sunizona, Arizona, USA: Site #0001 This is the first grow site and plant breeding site. Expansion is under way to have a stock of four thousand (4,000) growing opuntia ficus indica and other varieties. Our main goal here is to create hard freeze resistant stock and to open a nursery (wholesale and...
02/22/2023	Grow Site	Sunizona, Arizona, USA: Site #0001 This is the first grow site and plant breeding site. Expansion is under way to have a stock of four thousand (4,000) growing opuntia ficus indica and other varieties. Our main goal here is to create hard freeze resistant stock and to open a nursery (wholesale and...
02/20/2023	Publication	Native Cultivars of Cactus Pear in México Cactus pears or prickly pears (Opuntia spp. Cactaceae) are omnipresent plants of the Mexican landscape and have great historical and ethnobotanical significance. Ripe fruits and tender cladodes (pads), have been collected from the wild since pre Columbian times, and the mature cladodes are used as a forage for livestock. Opuntia...
02/20/2023	Publication	Development of a regeneration protocol through indirect organogenesis An indirect organogenesis regeneration protocol for Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill var “Blanco sin Espinas” is described. One centimeter square cladode explants sections from previously micropropagated prickly pear plants were cultured in Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium supplemented with 20 different combinations of 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D) and benzyladenine (BA)....
02/20/2023	Publication	Crop Ecology, Cultivation and Uses of Cactus Pear Cactus crops are gaining increasing interest across the globe, in particular cactus pear (Opuntia ficus− indica), because of its unique characteristics which provide resilience to the above mentioned harsh conditions. Cactus pear is able to grow on land where no other crops are able to grow; it can be used...