IFG formed a partnership with Grapery and Sunridge Nursery. Glen and Terrie Stoller were the founders of Bakersfield-based grapevine nursery Sunridge Nurseries, a supplier of plant material to the wine and table grape industry, and their son Craig was the company's president. Pandol was a UC Davis plant scientist graduate and third generation grape grower who had founded grape growing company Grapery in 1996. Cain was a fruit breeder who in the 1970s worked in Fresno, California as a researcher with the USDA, developing new varieties of table grapes and seedless raisins. IFG was founded in 2001 in Bakersfield by David Cain, Jack Pandol, Glen Stoller, his wife Terrie Stoller, and their son Craig Stoller. Among its variety of table grapes is Cotton Candy grapes, which it licenses to Bakersfield-based grower Grapery. The company licenses patented breeds of fruit to growers worldwide, and is the largest private breeder of table grapes in the world. International Fruit Genetics (IFG) is a private Bakersfield, California-based fruit breeding company. Grape and cherry licensing, including Cotton Candy grapes
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