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Dr. Fernandez traveled to Liaoning Institute of Pomology (LIP), China Agriculture University (CAU) and Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences in late June 2018. At the LIP, she visited their raspberry breeding program lab, greenhouse and field locations. She also presented a talk on the NCSU raspberry breeding program with the focus on developing heat tolerance in raspberry. She also visited CAU and Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences where she presented talks on strawberry breeding for disease resistance.