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有一个更光明的未来。苹果品种有令人惊叹的味道，保持质量和能力，以适应快速变化的气候。但如果我们找不到它们，它们就会永远消失。在一项微型试验的基础上，我们将搜索西部古国的果园，只需要从每棵树上取一小片叶子，使用快速测序，我们将找到稀有的树木，采样和分析果实--测试它的食用、烹饪和苹果酒，并观察树木的健康状况。结果将让我们找回被认为永远失去的苹果。我们将能够利用一台时光机，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已经丢失的基因，这些基因可能掌握着气候生存的关键。

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.