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Semaine de la vanille du 8-11 Juin au Hall de l'assemblée de la Polynésie Française et dans tous les hotels partenaires
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Major step forward for the Tahitian Vanilla breeding programme
After six years of growing, for the first time, an hybrid issued from the cross between Vanilla ×tahitensis and Vanilla pompona has blossomed. Pollen of V. pompona was put on a Vanilla ×tahitensis flower on 2004, nine months later the ripe bean was harvested and one of its seeds sowed (2005).
Read more...Vanille de Tahiti is awarded medals at the Salon International de l'Agriculture 2011
Historic and exceptional!
Tahitian Vanilla is awarded 3 gold medals, 1 excellence award and 1 silver medal at the Concours Général Agricole 2011.
Mr. Frédéric RIVETA, President of the board of Etablissement Vanille de Tahiti is proud to present the 2011 record of Polynesian winners in the Vanilla category.
Read more...The Tahitian Vanilla in Dubai
For the promotion of Tahitian vanilla and for the 2010 international events closing, Etablissement Vanille de Tahiti was present at the 1st edition of the "Gourmet Speciality and Fine Food trade show, in parallel with the 3rd edition of the "Sweets Middle East" trade show that took place from 31 October to 2 November 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
For the Tahitian Vanilla to be present to this luxurious trade show is in complete harmony with the promotional campaign, emphasizing keeping the product at the international level, independently from other promotional campaigns targeting France, Germany and North America.
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Tahitian Vanilla: Origin of its specificity
J.W. Moore described in 1933, the first time the vanilla plan grown in Tahiti as new and endemic specie, Vanilla tahitensis. It has never been described anywhere, neither in cultivated areas, nor in Central America, where the vanilla plant originates from.
Vanilla tahitensis does not exist in Polynesia or in the Pacific under a form other than the one of cultivated plant, from 1951, it was argued that it was a hybridization between several species Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla pompona, itself already a hybrid of Vanilla odorata. Some wanted to consider Vanilla tahitensis as derived from Vanilla planifolia.
In order to answer those questions that are foremost for any protection project about the Tahitian vanilla, the Etablissement Vanille de Tahiti has conducted research to elucidated genealogy of vanilla plants grown in French Polynesia.
Mrs. Sandra Lepers-Andrzejewski, in charge of the research department at the Etablissement, has carried out the research within the framework of her thesis and thanks to genetics studies carried out with the University of California, it has been shown that V tahitensis is a hybrid between Vanilla planifolia and a specie close to Vanilla odorata. Therefore the Polynesian vanilla plant is to the called "Vanilla x tahitensis", "x" indicating a hybrid and not a specie.
Genetic mapping studies carried out at the laboratory of the Etablissement Vanille de Tahiti and cytogenetic studies carried out jointly with the cytogenetic platform – CNRS of Gif sur Yvette (http://www.ifr87.cnrs-gif.fr/pbc/presentation/index.html)) and the Orsay University (http://www.ese.u-psud.fr/) have enabled to understand processes having lead to the existing diversity amongst Tahitian vanilla plants. Therefore all various morphotypes (Haapape, Rea rea, Parahurahu, Puroini, Paraauti, Potiti, Pupa, Oviri, etc...) originate from the same parent, the "Tahiti" form.