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["Dyer, Jonathan A." <dyerja@health.missouri.edu>]

Seems like this might be something where NAFEX/ NAFEX members could work with 
Geneva and/or one of the Oregon programs in applying for funds to help 
protect/analyze this unique collection.  Perhaps serving to help organize and 
advocate for such a collaborative project would make it more likely to obtain 
funding for obtaining samples and preserving them, and ideally propagating 
them in a reference orchard, if the original can't be protected.  Undoubtedly 
there are errors in the labeling, it would be expected with that number of 
cultivars, but as a future resource of both germplasm and DNA for lineage 
studies.

Jon Dyer