James W. Cameron (23 April 1913 – 12 January 2010) was a professor of horticultural science, a geneticist and citrus breeder in the University of California Citrus Experiment Station.
Breeding
Together with Robert Soost he developed the Oroblancohttp://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/repositoryfiles/ca3411p16-62827.pdf Oroblanco: A new grapefruit hybrid and Melogold grapefruits, and the encore and pixiePixies from Paradise mandarins,Encore and Pixie: Two New Mandarins with Unusual Use which turned out to be of major importance.Sweet citrus varieties with deep orange rind released by UC Riverside By 1954, he had developed 484 hybrid citrus seedlings, most of them resistant against nematodes, together with Richard C. Baines.University Bulletin
Cameron was a co-author on volume II of The Citrus Industry.The Citrus Industry Volume II
Academic writings Nucellar Seedlings may permit development of disease-free citrus varieties Tree and fruit characters of Citrus triploids from tetraploid by diploid crosses Chemico-Genetic Bases for the Reserve Carbohydrates in Maize Endosperm, PDF full Nuclear lines of citrus: Tree size, yield, and fruit characters of old and young lines of ten citrus varieties compared
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