Abstract
Abstract South Florida is the repository of the largest diversity of mango germplasm in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps in the entire world. Hundreds of East Indian, Indochinese and tropical American accessions and their offspring have hybridized here to give entirely new forms which would have been thought impossible to attain in their areas of origin. Cultivars with such desirable commercial attributes as disease resistance, attractive fruit color, flesh firmness, and extended shelf life have been developed. The biennial and unreliable bearing behavior of the Old World mangos has been largely solved in the new cultivars. Indeed, annual mango yields can reach averages of 30 metric tons per hectare in the best orchards of the Homestead area. How has all this come about? What are the circumstances, institutions, and men responsible for this unique achievement?
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