Pomegranate is a marginal fruit crop in Mexico, practiced by small farmers and focused on the national market. The Mexican varieties bear during summer, they are probably segregants of Spanish and American pomegranates, obtained through sexual propagation and informal introduction, they are maintained in gardens and family orchards. Mexico also regularly imports pomegranates from USA under the frame of commercial treaties. INIFAP has been supporting a Genetic Resources and Breeding program since 2002 pursuing the following objectives: to obtain new pomegranate cultivars suitable for export – Wonderful type–, to extend the harvest season into fall and to enhance fruit quality, among others. We have characterized the national germplasm and obtained selections adequate to supplement the local market, others with ornamental value and some with outstanding functional properties, advances that will be discussed in this presentation.