Evaluation location: New York, United States
Phil Forsline and his collaborators brought back Malus sieversii seeds and clones from several collection sites in Kazakhstan in 1995 and 1996. These analyses compare the genetic diversity of 274 M.sieversii individuals from collection site 9 and 174 individuals of M. sieversii from collection site 6. The purpose of the study was to compare allelic diversity with phenotypic diversity and identify core subsets of individuals that capture much of the characterized diversity from these 2 collection sites. This paper has been published (see Evaluation citation).