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  2. Apple genome - Wikipedia

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    RedTE has identical flanking LTRs which means it was a more recent insertion. Many red and non-red apples were tested, and redTE was identified in all of the red apples and none of the non-red apples, meaning that redTE may be responsible for the red color of apples. [1]

  3. Apple - Wikipedia

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    An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus spp., among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found.

  4. Malling series - Wikipedia

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    The Malling series is a group of rootstocks for grafting apple trees. It was developed at the East Malling Research Station of the South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye in Kent , England. From about 1912, Ronald Hatton and his colleagues rationalised, standardised and catalogued the various rootstocks in use in Europe at the time under ...

  5. Malus sieversii - Wikipedia

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    Its fruit is the largest of any species of Malus except domestica, up to 7 cm in diameter, equal in size to many modern apple cultivars. Unlike domesticated varieties, its leaves go red in autumn: 62% of the trees in the wild do this compared to only 2.8% of the regular apple plant or the 2,170 English cultivated varieties.

  6. Empire (apple) - Wikipedia

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    The Geneva teams grew and tested ever dwindling sub-populations of the sibling group until 1966, when the final selection, the Empire, was released to the public at the New York Fruit Testing Association meetings in Geneva. [1] According to the US Apple Association website it is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United ...

  7. Fruit - Wikipedia

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    Insertion point: There are three positions of insertion of the ovary at the base of a flower: I superior; II half-inferior; III inferior. The 'insertion point' is where the androecium parts (a), the petals (p), and the sepals (s) all converge and attach to the receptacle (r). (Ovary=gynoecium (g).)

  8. Glossary of plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Pericarp – the body of the fruit from its outside surface to the chamber where the seeds are, including the outside skin of the fruit and the inside lining of the seed chamber. Suture – the seam along which the fruit opens; normally in most fruits it is where the carpel or carpels are fused together. Valve – one of the segments of the ...

  9. Wyken Pippin - Wikipedia

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    Wyken Pippin is an old cultivar of domesticated apple originating in the Netherlands, [1] or have originated in the garden of the Wyken Manor house in England from a seedling that was sourcing back to the Netherlands or Belgium, [2] possibly in the early 1700s. [3] It has several other names including 'Alford Prize' and 'Pheasant's Eye'. [4]