Campuses:
Jim LubyFruit Breeding
Professor
Department of Horticultural Science
Dr. Luby teaches courses in viticulture, fruit production and plant breeding. The primary goal of his research is to develop, evaluate, and introduce fruit cultivars with horticultural, disease and pest resistance, and fruit quality characters desired by growers and consumers in Minnesota and surrounding areas. The breeding programs concentrate on apple and grape. An accompanying objective is to evaluate and/or develop novel alternative fruit and crops (e.g. blackcurrant and primocane-fruiting blackberry) with potential in Minnesota for commercial production or edible landscapes. In addition to developing new plant material, cultivated and wild germplasm is evaluated for variability for traits that potentially enhance the value of fruit crops for consumers and producers. Research aims to determine the inheritance of these traits and, where appropriate, map important loci using molecular markers for use in marker assisted breeding. Recent or current examples include traits related to fruit quality in apple, resistance to apple scab, and low temperature responses, disease resistance, and fruit quality in grape derived from wild Vitis riparia.
Yao, S., J. Luby, and K. Hummer. 2012. Cold hardiness and foliar disease resistance of North American and Asian Fragaria. J. Amer. Pom. Soc. 66:46-55.
McKay, S.J., J.M. Bradeen, and J.J. Luby. 2011. Prediction of genotypic values for apple fruit texture traits in a breeding population derived from 'Honeycrisp'. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 136:408-414.
Telias, A., J. M. Bradeen, J. J. Luby, A.C. Allan, E.E. Hoover. 2011.Towards a healthier and more attractive apple: Regulation of anthocyanin accumulation. Horticultural Reviews 38:357-391.
Hancock, J., C. Finn, J. Luby, A. Dale, P. Callow and S. Serçe 2010. Reconstruction of the strawberry, Fragaria xananassa, using native genotypes of F. virginiana and F. chiloensis. HortScience 45:1006-1013.
Iezzoni, A.. C. Weebadde, J. Luby, C. Yue, E. van de Weg, , G. Fazio, ,D. Main, C. Peace, N.Bassil, and J. McFerson. 2010 RosBREED: Enabling Marker-Assisted Breeding in Rosaceae. Acta Hort 859:389-394.
Meyer M.H., S. Hokanson, S. Galatowitsch, J. Luby. 2010. Public Gardens: Fulfilling the University’s Research Mission. HortTechnology 20:522-527.
Luby, J.J. and D.S. Bedford. 2010. Apples. In: (J.R. Clark and C.E. Finn, eds.) Register of New Fruit and Nut Cultivars List 45. HortScience 45:716-719.
Bus V, Rikkerink E, Aldwinckle HS, Caffier V, Durel CE, Gardiner S, Gessler C, Groenwold R, Laurens F, Cam BL, Luby J, Meulenbroek B, Kellerhals M, L. Parisi11, Patocchi A, Plummer K,Schouten HJ,
Tartarini S, Weg WEvd. 2009. A proposal for the nomenclature of Venturia inaequalis races. Acta Hort 814:739-746
Yao, S., J.J. Luby, D.K. Wildung. 2009. Strawberry cultivar injury after two contrasting Minnesota winters. HortTechnology 19:803-808.
Garris, A., L. Clark, C. Owens, S.J. McKay, J.J. Luby, K. Mathiason, A. Fennell. 2009. Mapping of photoperiod-induced growth cessation in the wild grape Vitis riparia Michx. using microsatellite markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 134:261-272.
Luby, J.J. and D.V. Shaw. 2009. Plant breeders’ perspectives on improving yield and quality traits in horticultural food crops. HortScience 44:20-22.
Forsline, P.L., J.J. Luby, and H.S. Aldwinckle. 2008. Fire blight incidence on Malus sieversii grown in New York and Minnesota. Acta Hort 793:345-350.
Luby, J.J., J. F. Hancock, A. Dale and S. Serçe. 2008. Reconstructing Fragaria ´ananassa utilizing wild F. virginiana and F. chiloensis: Inheritance of winter injury, photoperiod sensitivity, fruit size, female fertility and disease resistance in hybrid progenies. Euphytica 163:57-65.
Weebadde, C. K., D. Wang, C.E. Finn, K.S. Lewers, J.J. Luby, J. Bushakra, T.M. Sjulin and J.F. Hancock. 2008. Using a linkage mapping approach to identify QTL for day-neutrality in the octoploid strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch ex Rozier). Plant Breeding 127:94-101.
Burnes, T.A., J.A. Smith, J. J. Luby, and R.A. Blanchette. 2008. Black currant clonal identity and white pine blister rust resistance. HortScience 43:200-202.
Start, M.A., J. Luby, D. Filler, O. Riera-Lizarazu, and R. Guthrie. 2007. Ploidy levels of cold hardy Actinidia accessions in the United States Determined by flow cytometry. Acta Hort 753:161-168.
Guthrie, R.S., J.J. Luby, D.S. Bedford, and S.T. McNamara. 2007. Partial dominance in Actinidia kolomikta interspecific hybrids. Acta Hort 753:211-218.
Hokanson, K., Smith, M., Connor, A.M, Luby, J.J, and J. Hancock. 2006. Relationships among subspecies of New World octoploid strawberry species, Fragaria virginiana and Fragaria chiloensis, based on SSR marker analysis. Can. J. Bot. 84:1829-1841.
Fennell, A., K. Mathiason, and J. Luby. 2006. Genetic segregation for indicators of photoperiod control of dormancy induction in Vitis species. Acta Hortic. 689:533-539.
Mann, H., D. Bedford, J. Luby, Z. Vickers, and C. Tong. 2005.Textural and microscopic analysis of softening related changes in apple fruit during storage. HortScience 40:1815-1820.
Cabe, P.R, A. Baumgarten, K. Onan, J.J. Luby, and D.S. Bedford. 2005. Using microsatellite analysis to verify breeding records: a study of ‘Honeycrisp’ and other cold-hardy apple cultivars. HortScience 40:15-17.
J.F. Hancock, S. Serçe, C.M. Portman, P.A. Callow, and J.J. Luby. 2004. Taxonomic variation among North and South American subspecies of Fragaria virginiana Miller and F. chiloensis (L.) Miller. Can. J. Bot. 82:1632-1644.
342 Alderman Hall
1970 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55413
Phone: 612.624.3453
Email: lubyx001@umn.edu
Website: Superior Blueberry, Cold Hardy Grapes, www.apples.umn.edu, http://fruit.cfans.umn.edu/
