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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusDancy Mandarin
Tokurou Shimizu et al. · PLOS ONE · 2016-11-30
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166969 (opens in a new tab)
Open-access DNA-marker study (CC BY 4.0). Apply only to the study accessions and preserve the authors’ stated identity and parentage limits; it does not by itself establish the identity of every catalog tree or clone bearing a matching cultivar name.
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Larry K. Jackson and Stephen H. Futch · UF/IFAS Extension
https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/CH074 (opens in a new tab)
Extension cultivar profile describing Dancy’s reported 1867 Orange Mills seed origin from Moragne tangerine, fruit and tree characteristics, Alternaria susceptibility, harvest handling and production.
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Linda Lewis Griffith, UCCE Master Gardener · UC Master Gardeners—Diggin’ it in SLO / UC Agriculture and Natural Resources · 2018-05-16
https://ucanr.edu/blog/uc-master-gardeners-diggin-it-slo/article/dancy-mandarin (opens in a new tab)
Master Gardener cultivar profile describing fruit, tree habit, seasonal ripening, hardiness and pollination. Its broad, uncertain geographic-origin account differs from the cultivar-specific Florida seedling origin in UF/IFAS.
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California Gardening · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytDcJWvAs4 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: California Gardening describes Dancy grown in a home garden, with December–January ripening, some seeds, thin easy-peeling skin and fruit described as very sweet.
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GinosGardens · YouTube · 2017-01-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGWPHDcVctQ (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: GinosGardens describes thin-skinned Dancy fruit, demonstrates clipping versus pulling at harvest, and reports alternating years of larger sparse fruit and smaller abundant fruit. Taste is praised without an intensity rating.
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Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UCR
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3026 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus Variety Collection profile for CRC 3026, including accession provenance, Riverside season, horticultural observations and a reproduced 1967 historical account of Dancy.
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Graham H. Barry; Marco Caruso; Frederick G. Gmitter Jr. · ScienceDirect Topics (Elsevier); chapter published by Woodhead Publishing
Attributable excerpt from “Chapter 5 – Commercial scion varieties,” §Dancy: section 5.6.1, paragraph B978012812163400005X-p0680; in The Genus Citrus (2020), pp. s83–s104, DOI 10.1016/B978-0-12-812163-4.00005-X. The topic page exposes selected chapter text, not the full chapter.
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Jude W. Grosser; Frederick G. Gmitter Jr.; E. S. Louzada; J. L. Chandler · American Society for Horticultural Science / HortScience · October 1992
HortScience 27(10):1125–1127. The paper reports Dancy leaf protoplasts from nucellar seedlings fused with Hamlin protoplasts and recovery of allotetraploid Hamlin + Dancy hybrid plants. It does not identify the Dancy seed source, accession, donor tree, location, or seedling age; this is laboratory hybridization, not a Dancy pedigree or field-performance trial.
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Eliezer S. Louzada; Chandrika Ramadugu · HortTechnology / American Society for Horticultural Science · 2021-05-05
https://journals.ashs.org/view/journals/horttech/31/3/article-p243.xml (opens in a new tab)
The review describes Dancy mandarin as the seed parent and Duncan grapefruit as pollen parent in tangelo breeding, and separately cites somatic-cell fusion work using Dancy cells. These experimental cross roles do not change Dancy’s own parentage or establish a new cultivar phenotype.
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Guohong Albert Wu et al. · Nature · 2018-02-07
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25447 (opens in a new tab)
Study-name finding: Wu et al. state that Ponkan is a parent of Dancy, without assigning seed/pollen direction. The catalog records Moragne Tangerine as seed parent and an unknown pollen parent, supported by existing cultivar sources. Preserve that unknown; this paper alone does not resolve the direction or establish the study accession as the same clone.
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W. P. Bitters · Journal of Citrus Pathology (digital special topic) · 2021 (digital edition; manuscript circa 1986)
At printed p. 82 (PDF p. 88), Bitters summarizes Moreira et al. (1965), who placed Dancy Mandarin among the “fair” rootstock drought-resistance group. The source describes nucellar Bara and Valencia Late orange, Dancy tangerine, and Eureka lemon scions budded on 77 tristeza-tolerant rootstocks under nonirrigated conditions in Brazil. It does not identify the accession or clone of any listed rootstock, provide a variety-specific sample count, or report a measured threshold.
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Howard B. Frost; James W. Cameron · University of California Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture · 1951-02
https://archive.org/details/fruadweettwonewc0721fros (opens in a new tab)
Bulletin 721, February 1951. Dancy is directly compared with Frua in Table 1, printed p. 4; the table reports separate Riverside harvest samples for 1925–29, including sample counts, fruit weights, juice percentage, soluble-solids percentage, citric-acid percentage, and ratio. The bulletin also identifies Dancy as the pollen parent of Frua and Dweet (printed pp. 3 and 5). These are source-specific historical trial results.
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