Wyoming Apple Project
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Wyoming Apple Project
The goal of our project is to preserve and maintain apple diversity in the state of Wyoming. Through the use of SSRs we identified forty-seven cultivars, including 146 unique genotypes still living in the state of Wyoming. Our sampling focused on homesteads and orchard plantings from the 1880s to 1930s to help increase our chances of finding heritage apples. This information will allow production and breeding programs in Wyoming to select existing cultivars to improve drought and cold tolerance in apple cultivars. We hope to continue to build onto the list of cultivars with future sampling and identification techniques. Ongoing efforts are being made to relocate apple cultivars and unique genotypes to a safe and well maintained orchard in Sheridan, Wy. By increasing awareness of the issues facing apples, we hope we can help save Wyomings cultivars for future generations and diversify the growing local fruit market movement in Wyoming.
Barnyards & Backyards (UW)
http://www.uwyo.edu/barnbackyard/_files/documents/magazine/2014/winter/010114bbwyappleproject.pdf
Farm to Fork Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/video/farm-fork-wyoming-wyoming-apple-project/
Newsletter of the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project Issue 1: Spring 2016.
http://montezumaorchard.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Spring-2016-Final_red2-1.pdf
Wyoming Livestock Roundup
http://www.wylr.net/food/4752-heritage-apples-miller-focuses-on-wyoming-apple-project
Cheyenne Garden Gossip
https://cheyennegardengossip.wordpress.com/tag/wyoming-apple-project/
UW-Botany Blog
http://uwbotany.blogspot.com/2016/11/uw-botany-professors-work-on-restoring.html
Central Wyoming College: Orchard Restoration Project
Wyoming State Archives
https://wyostatearchives.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/lander-wyomings-apple-city/
Heritage Orchard Programs in WY & MT
http://www.pfisterlandco.com/news/pfister-news-blog/post/heritage-orchard-programs-in-wy-mt
We thank all who have provided funding for this project: United Sates Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Wyoming Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Program (including Director Ted Craig). In addition, we are grateful to C. Thomas Chao, Nicholas Howard and Carol Ann Miles for providing leaf samples of reference cultivars. Thank you to all the orchards and tree owners who provided access to their trees. Thank you Nannette Slingerland of the Spear S (formerly Ed. Young) Produce Company, Keith Murray of the Murraymere Farms Orchard and Joanne Slingerland of the Central Wyoming College (CWC) Field Station: Apple restoration project. Thank you Dr. Brian Scheffler and Sheron Simpson of the USDA-ARS (Stoneville, MS) for genotyping assistance. Finally, a special thanks to Dr. Gayle M. Volk for your mentorship over these years, including Adam Henk, Ann Reilley and remaining staff at the USDA-ARS (Fort Collins, CO).
Contributors: USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Fort Collins, CO., USDA-ARS of Geneva, NY., Seed Savers Exchange, Temperate Orchard Conservancy, Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project, Washington Cider-Washington State University, Cornell University, Oregon State University and National Parks/Forest (Eldorado, Redwood and Yosemite)
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