From left are a winter melon, jujubes, luffa squash, Asian pears and Chinese long beans, all grown at Gene Peng's orchard southwest of Lawrence. It’s a busy season at Jujube Orchard, where Gene Peng ...

SUNNY YEUNG, team manager for the undefeated Blue Blazers under-8 soccer squad, was handing out shiny, mahogany red treats during pregame warmups. “Have a date, Coach,” she said to me. “They’re from ...

Last week I wrote about the Japanese raisin tree, a plant few Americans are familiar with, but a fruit tree worth cultivating in Florida. Also worthy of space in our landscapes is the jujube, a ...

Unlocking the secrets of the Chinese jujube's evolution, a new study presents the most detailed genomic analysis to date. By assembling the haplotype-resolved T2T reference genomes of both wild and ...

Remember the chewy jujube candy we grew up with it? Well, these are not the confection, but rather the fresh fruit with an exotic name that may have inspired the candy’s name. Jujubes, also known as ...

My curiosity about the health benefits of red dates, AKA Chinese jujubes, led me to make these dairy-free, gluten-free, and refined sugar-free Jujube Quinoa Bars. These bars are naturally sweetened ...

Jujubes are a subtropical fruit that can be grown in Southwest Florida as an alternative to apples. The fruit has a crisp, apple-like taste and is rich in Vitamin C. Jujube trees are drought-tolerant ...

ITHACA, NY--The high quality genome sequence of the dry jujube, along with sequences from trees throughout its range, have illuminated the domestication history of this ancient fruit tree, which ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the dry jujube. They identified the genomic region that underlies the sugar and acid content of the fruits -- a key factor in jujube domestication -- as well ...