00:00Mango season might be over, but they're plentiful in this suburban Brisbane building.
00:13These 20 varieties originated from across the world and were all grown at a research
00:18farm in far north Queensland.
00:21That's beautiful Rosa.
00:23Dr Azjad Ali leads the Queensland mango breeding program.
00:27Around 350 plus varieties we have collected around the globe, so they are live in the
00:33field.
00:34Every year they fruit.
00:36Some of them, sometimes they take rest, but mostly they fruit every year and we assess them
00:41in the lab.
00:42The program began in the 1960s with scientists collecting wild mango varieties from Indonesia,
00:48Malaysia and India.
00:50We have 26 plus varieties from India, that's the origin of the crop.
00:56And a couple from Sri Lanka, then USA and Mexico, Brazil, a couple of them from African varieties.
01:03And then other Asian like Thailand, Vietnam, those are Chinese varieties there.
01:10It's all about perfecting the ideal variety for the Australian palate and market.
01:17And it takes more than good growing conditions to create the perfect mango.
01:22There are a couple of options here.
01:24So we included the varieties from Florida.
01:26They have very different taste and aroma.
01:29Philippa Lyons heads the consumer intelligence team for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.
01:35And it's her job to find out exactly what the consumer wants in a mango.
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01:49It certainly has 19 Louise community team.
01:52Um, and this is our child.
01:53Yeah.
01:54We'll find out exactly where they can start our home tonight and leave our homes in the dark.
01:56Let's see if in renovation and moving from Pittsburgh, that etc..
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02:01We can find out exactly where coveted, which is homepage of why we have a phosphate plant.
02:02But that's the quest where it comes from for blasting our homes together.
02:04It was almost to one of them to have to find out the power plant forい in far away.
02:06Yeah.
02:07We will have to go forward to and work sounds again.
02:09Again, I will do a lot to work together.
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