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Re: Request for list of apple varieties & others
There are well over a thousand varieties of apples being maintained at
the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository, a gene bank for fruit
trees, in Geneva, New York. This is one of eight fruit and nut
repositories in the United States where economically important, clonally
propagated crops are preserved. An easy way to access information on
line is to gopher to sol.ars-grin.gov and select the "National Plant
Germplasm System" menu. There are then menus for accessing summary
information for any of the plant collections (seed or clonal) catalogued
in the USDA National Germplasm Database (Germplasm Resources Information
Network or GRIN), or downloading subsets of the database on a
crop-by-crop basis.
For information about the collections at our Corvallis, Oregon
repository, you may contact me by email. We keep the national
collections of pears, hazelnuts, and small fruits (strawberry,
raspberry, blueberry...)
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Joseph D. Postman | N ational /
-PLANT PATHOLOGIST- | C lonal / \ Eat More
postmanj@bcc.orst.edu | G ermplasm / \ Fruit!
corjp@sol.ars-grin.gov | R epository \ _ /
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USDA/Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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