Skip to main content

Collating genuine local apple varieties of Finnish origin to national clone collection

Nurkkapuu

In the project, the origin knowledge of Finnish seed born apple varieties is collected, and the known the trees of the known variety names are announced in old gardens to the variety identification. The identification is made combining external distinctive marks and DNA fingerprinting to the old pomology literature, nursery catalogues, written local history and memory information.

Collating DNA-fingerprint library of Finnish born local apple varieties; Completing clonal apple collection (trees, passport data, morphological characteristics) of the Finnish National Plant Genetic Resources Programme; Establishing the orchard of old historic apple varieties in Louhisaari Manor; Variety identification manual containing origin historic data of one hundred Finnish born local apple varieties