Dr. Paul Lyrene Ph.D selected for Duke Galletta Award.
Paul Lyrene, professor of horticulture and plant breeding and genetics in the Horticultural Sciences Department of the University of Florida in Gainsville has been selected for the Duke Galletta Award for Horticultural Research for 2013. In addition to blueberry breeding, Lyrene also studies interspecific hybridization and polypoid evolution, using various species of Vaccinium that are native in the southeastern USA as the subjects of his experiments. Paul is well respected by his peers around the world and a great friend to the blueberry world.