We have just published our Members’ Spring News Sheet 2025. Get the latest updates on the Marcher Apple Network’s activities and events, including the fully-subscribed grafting workshop we held in March. To be able to read this and all the past issues – and all issues of our annual Apples & Pears newsletter magazine, plus […]
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List of varieties in MAN's collection have been updated in https://www.marcherapple.net/
Analysis of 391 unique genotype triploid varieties of apple has been made for identifying their parentage of siblings using DNA SSR and DArT, together with photographs and provenance. There are about 70 with likely (maternal) parents, 24 may have a paternal parent and another 40 siblings are in 15 families. Details are presented https://www.marcherapple.net/
Results of the apple and pear DNA 2021 campaign are awaited from East Malling Research; we understand that issues with instruments and reagent availability have caused major delays.
Apple & Pear Events Diary for 2025 released
We have now released the Apple & Pear Events Diary for 2025 Please note that we will update this events calendar throughout the year so please revisit it to get the latest news about events. For further details check out the ‘Full Event Listing with Details’ underneath the ‘Events Overview’. If you are interested in […]
March 2025: Purchase of MAN heritage trees – Members only
A unique opportunity to own MAN heritage apple tree(s)! Trees in pots As you know, Frank Matthews has made a copy of our Paramor orchard tree collection and they grafted and grew two grafts of each tree (for redundancy). We now have many of the “spare” grafted trees for sale immediately to MAN members; so here’s an […]
