Richard Wallace, Chemistry, presented an invited talk at the California Rare Fruit Growers "Festival of Fruit" annual meeting in Santa Rosa, California. The talk with co-authors Ms. Suzanne Carpenter (AASU-Chemistry) and Dr. Gerard Krewer (University of Georgia-retired) was titled "Edible and Ornamental Banana Breeding and Development for Non-Tropical Climates". This presentation described some of the current biotechnology research being carried out at AASU directed at the development of new hybrid banana varieties better suited for the non-tropical regions of the world.