Floyd Zaiger

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Floyd Zaiger : biography

1926 –

Floyd Zaiger (born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics, and founded Zaiger’s Genetics. He was born in Nebraska and grew up in Iowa. Zaiger has developed both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. He uses cross-pollination, rather than gene-splicing or DNA manipulation, to develop new hybrids.

In Popular Culture

Zaiger figures prominently in the mental life of artisanal marijuana breeder Miro Basinas, hero of Mark Haskell Smith’s novel Baked.