Farming Innovation Programme: Research starter Round 3, full stage - Study of historic orchards, to find 'natural survivors' and assess for natural low-carbon potential, and climate survivability

保存独特的苹果，将有助于确保果园苹果和苹果酒在英国更光明的未来。有苹果品种与惊人的味道，保持质量和生存能力的迅速变化的气候。但如果我们找不到它们，它们将永远消失。在一次微型试验的基础上，我们将搜索西部地区的古老果园，只需要从每棵树上取一小片叶子，并使用快速测序，我们将找到稀有树木，对水果进行取样和分析--测试食用、烹饪和苹果酒，并观察树的健康状况。结果将使我们重新获得被认为永远失去的苹果。我们将能够品尝时间机器，并了解数百年前什么是重要的。重新发现古老的水果也让苹果育种者获得了被认为丢失的基因，这些基因可能是气候生存的关键。

Saving unique apples, will help secure a brighter future for orchards apples and cider in the UK.There are apple varieties with amazing flavours, keeping qualities and the ability to survive the rapidly changing climate. But if we don't find them, they will be lost forever.Building on a micro trial which itself revealed several varieties unknown to any collection, we will scour the ancient orchards of the Westcountry, needing only a small piece of leaf from each tree, and using rapid sequencing, we will find the rare trees, sample and analyse the fruit - test it for eating, cooking and cider, and observe tree health.The results will give us back apples thought lost forever. We will be able to take a flavour Time Machine and understand what was important hundreds of years ago. Rediscovering ancient fruit also gives apple breeders access to genes thought lost, genes which may hold the key to climate survival.