Last week I had the honor of being invited to a talk on the Shell apple, hosted at the Brewton Agricultural Extension Office.
I didn’t think to set up a camera to record the event, but Randall and Mechelle White did.
I think you’ll find this presentation fascinating:
Very cool to be there.
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Have they also looked at the genomes of southern crabapples?
It would make sense that DAM1 was already an adaptation in one of the native southern crabapple species/ecotypes and could have been introduced through hybridization at some point.
That is a good thought. I will have to ask him.
He got back to me, writing: “It is a compelling question. However, the genome of shell has no strong overlap with crabapples that we’ve sequenced. I actually have grown Wickson, chestnut and Whitney crabs- All are promiscuous with respect to flowering time. So we sequenced some of them, and they don’t match domesticated apples. I have not looked at agustifolia.
Good thinking.”
This was a fascinating lecture! Thanks for sharing.
Dr Folte had a podcast on biotech and science. I used to listen to it, and then got busy.
His discussion of spore formation was inspired, I never understood it but it really fascinated him.
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