Meiyan produces a new orange with almost no seeds

According to the daily mail of the UK, scientists in the United States have obtained a new orange variety, kinnowls, through mutation breeding of kinnow Kumquat (LS means "less seeds") The new orange has only 2 or 3 seeds, far less than the general orange's 15 to 30 seeds The new orange is the eighth new citrus fruit developed by scientists at the University of California Riverside in the past 10 years Mikel Ruth, a citrus expert and director of the Department of Botany at the University of California, riverside, a member of the research team, said that kinnowls was only a little bigger than an ordinary orange, with a thin, smooth skin and a deep orange color Each orange has 10 to 11 petals It has a lot of meat and tastes sweet It will be popular among people who like sweet fruits "When other citrus varieties mature to be as sweet as kinnowls, their other qualities decline, however, neither kinnow nor kinnowls will," Ruth said Another attraction of kinnowls, Ruth points out, is that it matures between February and April and can withstand hot weather, so it can be planted in California's desert areas The "mother" of the orange, kinnow kumquat, was bred in 1935 at the University of California in the United States by cross pollination It is the most important citrus fruit in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, where the number of kinnow kumquat trees accounts for 80% of all citrus trees Scientists plan to distribute the new orange to growers in California in June, but farmers in India and Pakistan may have to wait a few years for kinnowls to take root The new orange is expected to appear on supermarket shelves within five years.