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Hand carried the first kiwifruit seeds from China Mary Isabel Fraser was born in 1863. She was the oldest of three daughters born to Mary Graham and Hugh...

Back when Isabel Fraser brought New Zealand’s first kiwifruit seeds over from China in 1904, the fruits were known by the Chinese name, yang tao, but New Zealanders...

In the late 1970′s, New Zealand kiwifruit growers began experimenting with the natural development of a golden kiwifruit. Seeds were imported from China, where a female plant, chosen...