Murcott (fruit)
| Murcott | |
|---|---|
 Citrus x nobilis 'W. Murcott', in the Linnean House of the Missouri Botanical Garden | |
| Hybrid parentage | Parents unknown; likely a tangor[1] |
| Cultivar | Murcott |
| Marketing names | 'Honey tangerine' |
| Origin | Florida |
The Murcott (marketed as: Honey Tangerine) is a tangor, or mandarin–sweet orange hybrid.[1][2][3]
The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer Walter Tennyson Swingle's attempts to produce novel citrus hybrids. Its seed parent has been identified as the King tangelo; the pollen parent remains to be identified.[4] About 1913, he gave a hybrid tree he had produced at a US Department of Agriculture planting to R. D. Hoyt at Safety Harbor, Florida. Hoyt in turn would pass on budwood to his nephew, Charles Murcott Smith, who grew the resulting trees in Baywood, Florida from 1922, and for whom the variety would be named.[1][5]
The trees grow upright, but often have branches bent or broken by heavy fruiting at the ends.[1]
It is widely grown in Florida, where it matures in January to March. Citrus scab and alternaria fungus disease attack Murcotts.[1]
The Murcott is one parent of the Clementine-like hybrid variously called the Afourer, Nadorcott or W. Murcott cultivar, the other parent being unknown.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ch078
- ↑ Velasco, Riccardo; Licciardello, Concetta (2014-01-01). "A genealogy of the citrus family". Nature Biotechnology. 32 (7): 640–642. doi:10.1038/nbt.2954. PMID 25004231.
- ↑ Wu, G. Albert; Prochnik, Simon; Jenkins, Jerry; Salse, Jerome; Hellsten, Uffe; Murat, Florent; Perrier, Xavier; Ruiz, Manuel; Scalabrin, Simone (2014-07-01). "Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication". Nature Biotechnology. 32 (7): 656–662. doi:10.1038/nbt.2906. ISSN 1087-0156. PMC 4113729. PMID 24908277.
- ↑ Shimizu, Tokurou; Kitajima, Akira; Nonaka, Keisuke; Yoshioka, Terutaka; Ohta, Satoshi; Goto, Shingo; Toyoda, Atsushi; Fujiyama, Asao; Mochizuki, Takako; Nagasaki, Hideki; Kaminuma, Eli; Nakamura, Yasukazu (2016). "Hybrid Origins of Citrus Varieties Inferred from DNA Marker Analysis of Nuclear and Organelle Genomes". PLoS. 11 (11): e0166969. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166969.
- ↑ Laszlo, Pierre (2007). Citrus: a history. University of Chicago Press. p. 75.
- ↑ "Mandarin tangerine called Nadorcott". U.S. Patent Plant #10480. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
