Floyd Zaiger

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Floyd Zaiger

Born 1926
Nebraska
Residence Modesto, California, USA
Fields Biology Pomology Fruit Hybridizing
Institutions Zaiger's Genetics
Alma mater UC Davis

Floyd Zaiger (1926- ) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. He also founded Zaiger's Genetics.

He was born in Nebraska and grew up in Iowa.

Zaiger has spent his life in the pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium.


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NAME Zaiger, Floyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Nebraska
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH