flask: “most current commercial apple varieties are descended from the same six apples. currently there are projects at UVM and cornell plantations (among others) to find and catalog lost apple varieties, which is a project since apples are perhaps the most wildly heterozygous species on the planet.”

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kastlin

Hi flask!!! Really? That's one I haven't had! (and I grew up in Minnesota, very big on apples there)

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flask

most current commercial apple varieties are descended from the same six apples. currently there are projects at UVM and cornell plantations (among others) to find and catalog lost apple varieties, which is a project since apples are perhaps the most wildly heterozygous species on the planet.

a long time ago

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kastlin

Only because they won't breed true from seed! They do a lot of apple variety study and development at UMinn too.

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