Breeding Procedures

For stone fruit and seedless table grape development, Sun World uses a highly efficient and successful breeding method called recurrent selection. This involves hybridizing different parents, each having some desired characteristic and then growing their resulting offspring. Typically not just one but several traits are needed to make a successful new variety. In the recurrent selection procedure, the best seedlings in each generation are crossed with one another to produce the next generation, each of which should produce an improvement over the previous generation. On the average, it takes more than 10 years to develop the perfect fruit.