How a CSU researcher is working to predict the perfect peach

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Ioannis Minas, wearing a black polo shirt with a Colorado State University logo, stands in between a row of peach trees.
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Ioannis Minas, associate professor of pomology at Colorado State University, poses for a photo among rows of peach trees at the Western Colorado Research Center in Orchard Mesa on Sept. 5.

Ioannis Minas, wearing a black polo shirt with the Colorado State University logo, points to a peach tree with only a few peaches left at the end of the seasonal harvest.
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Ioannis Minas, wearing a black, Colorado State University polo shirt, holds a white scanner up to a peach on a tree in Western Colorado in order to get a reading on the peach that will help determine harvest time.
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A close up photo of two hands shows one hand pulling a peach, still on the tree, closer to a white scanner that is demonstrating that it has successfully measured three categories of the peach, which will be used to determine harvest dates.
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A large, green cylinder is filled with peaches and covered by a piece of plexiglass. In the center, a yellow hose connects to the glass to control pressure in the chamber.
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