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Danson Seed Company, Inc is an innovative, family owned research and
development based vegetable seed company. Its experienced research group
has over two generations of experience devoted to breeding a wide range
of vegetable and agronomic crops. The company employs traditional breeding
technology to develop innovative new hybrids of tomatoes, peppers, watermelon,
and sweet corn. The company has been developing new hybrids that lower the
grower’s production costs and provide improved yields, while maintaining
high fruit quality to the consumer.
Company policy has been to breed according to the demands of the marketplace.
One of the important innovative factors of good plant breeding is the artistic side.
In other words, breaking out of molds and moving on to develop totally new shapes,
sizes and flavors. Good breeding is also based on the company’s germplasm base.
Danson has over 1300 pepper and over 900 tomato inbred parent lines and selections.
Danson has been developing extended shelf life ground culture tomatoes for
over a decade. One of the factors our breeding staff is proud of is that many of
our tomatoes have varied characteristics that make them high quality and very tasty.
These characteristics are acid: sugar ratio, firm non-mealy flesh, good skin and flesh
color, and smell.
In the company’s continuing search for high quality tomatoes, it has developed
a series of very high quality cherry tomatoes including Merlot and our “Golden Fruit”
series. Golden Fruit are golden colored cherry tomatoes of varying shapes
(round, pear, elongated, egg) with very high levels of sugar, fantastic flavor,
and very naturally occurring firm flesh. Using this material our breeders have
created hybrids of such high quality that they can be served as dessert.
Danson’s open-field saladette hybrids are very early, high-yielding and tolerant
to TYLCV and TWSV. Currently we are also working on indeterminate saladettes.
Danson’s mainstay for many years was its hot pepper program. Danson has a
multitude of hot pepper hybrids with varying sizes, shapes, colors and disease
resistances. The serrano program has also been making very good headway over the
past 6 years with Senor Serrano leading the way. Very low cracking Jalapeno hybrids
of dark green color have also been commercialized. Our hybrid Fresno has set new
standards for production. There is also available Pasillas, Anchos, Chile de Arbos,
Habaneros, sweet and hot Anahiems, Cherries (sweet and hot) Spikes (sweet and hot)
Corno de Toros, cayennes, Thai chiles, Kapyas, Dolmas, Demres, Corbacis, Lamuyos
and Blocky Bells (hot and sweet).
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