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===Red kiwifruit=== [[File:Kiwifruit 'Red Passion' cross section - Italy.jpg|thumb|Kiwifruit 'Red Passion' with a red-ring]] {{main|Red kiwifruit}} Red kiwifruits are cultivars of ''Actinidia chinensis'' var. ''chinensis'', distinguished by their red coloured flesh. Its origin can be traced back to China from a natural mutation of gold kiwifruit found in the wild in 1982,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rainbow Red Kiwi |url=https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Rainbow_Red_Kiwi_18290.php |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=specialtyproduce.com |language=en}}</ref> which became the Hongyang variety, China's first commercially viable red kiwifruit cultivar.<ref name=wang/><ref name="jue-2023">{{Cite journal |last1=Jue |first1=Deng-wei |last2=Sang |first2=Xue-lian |last3=Li |first3=Zhe-xin |last4=Zhang |first4=Wen-lin |last5=Liao |first5=Qin-hong |last6=Tang |first6=Jianmin |date=2023-11-01 |title=Determination of the effects of pre-harvest bagging treatment on kiwifruit appearance and quality via transcriptome and metabolome analyses |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0963996923008219 |journal=Food Research International |volume=173 |issue=Pt 1 |pages=113276 |doi=10.1016/j.foodres.2023.113276 |pmid=37803588 |issn=0963-9969}}</ref> By 2020, Hongyang became the most grown kiwifruit cultivar in China across all types and varieties.<ref name="Kiwifruit2023"/> International varieties include Oriental Red, a licenced version of Donghong variety kiwifruit grown in Italy,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jingold's Oriental Red Kiwi from China Wins Innovation Gold Prize |url=https://www.producereport.com/article/jingolds-oriental-red-kiwi-china-wins-innovation-gold-prize |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Produce Report |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-06 |title="800 hectares in China will be dedicated to Jintao kiwifruit" |url=https://www.freshplaza.com/north-america/article/9141205/800-hectares-in-china-will-be-dedicated-to-jintao-kiwifruit/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.freshplaza.com |language=en}}</ref> Zespri RubyRed, which was independently bred in New Zealand in 2007,<ref>{{Cite web |title=RubyRed™ Kiwi |url=https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/RubyRed_Kiwi_23789.php#:~:text=Plant%20&%20Food%20Research.-,Red-fleshed%20kiwis%20were%20born%20from%20a%20natural%20mutation%20of,new%20red-fleshed%20kiwi%20varieties. |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=specialtyproduce.com |language=en}}</ref> and EnzaRed, a cultivar that descends from the Hongyang variety grown by Turners & Growers in New Zealand.<ref name="NZE_Enza_red">{{cite web|url=http://exportermagazine.co.nz/news/enzared-kiwifruit-set-take-world-stage|title=EnzaRed kiwifruit set to take on world stage|date=14 June 2010|publisher=New Zealand Exporter|access-date=4 January 2013|archive-date=16 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216173137/http://exportermagazine.co.nz/news/enzared-kiwifruit-set-take-world-stage|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="HYChin">{{cite journal|last=Yang|first=Hong-Li|author2=Wang, Yan-Chang |author3=Jiang, Zheng-Wang |author4= Huang, Hong-Wen |title=[Construction of cDNA library of 'Hongyang' kiwifruit and analysis of F3H expression]|journal=Yi Chuan|year=2009|volume=31|issue=12|pages=1265–1272 |pmid=20042395|language=zh }}</ref><ref name="NBR_Enza_red">{{cite news|url=http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/turners-plugs-its-enza-red-kiwifruit-grown-china-119102|title=Turners plugs its Enza red kiwifruit – grown in China|date=24 February 2010|newspaper=[[National Business Review]] |access-date=4 January 2013|archive-date=24 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424141113/http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/turners-plugs-its-enza-red-kiwifruit-grown-china-119102|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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