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  • From: nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The apple forests of Almaty
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:46:15 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Ahhh - IF ONLY we had those original two trees!!

But they exist only in a computer model.
And my experience with tracing back lineages, assuming sexual crossing of
genetic material, always leads to two original specimens of whatever species
is being studied.

Jim
-----Original Message-----
>From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 7, 2011 6:48 PM
>To: Nat'l Ass'n of Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The apple forests of Almaty
>
>
>...loaded with heterozygosity! (if there be such a term)
>
>Dave
>
>> From: rewagner@centurytel.net
>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:11:38 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The apple forests of Almaty
>>
>> Why should it be surprising? All the human genetics are from just two
>> people.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mIEKAL aND
>> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:24 AM
>> To: North American Fruit Explorers
>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The apple forests of Almaty
>>
>> How is it possible that most of apple genetics are from two trees?
>>
>> "And here is the most amazing thing yet: These apple trees are the
>> source of all apples in the world! The results of a genetic
>> sequencing of the trees by researchers* show that the apple forests of
>> Kazakhstan are without a doubt the birthplace of the apple. In fact,
>> at this point, it looks like 90% of the world's apples are descendants
>> of just two trees."
>>
>> ~mIEKAL
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org> wrote:
>> > See
>> > <http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3125/>





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