Bruce MacDonald<p>"Some of these fixed genotypes are presumably as old as the Roman period," says Nicholas Howard, a geneticist at Fresh Forward in the Netherlands who has drawn heavily on the collection at Brogdale Farms in his research. The Romans, when they invaded the British Isles two millennia ago, are said to have brought domesticated apples with them.<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241205-the-apple-library-with-a-lost-world-on-its-limbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2024120</span><span class="invisible">5-the-apple-library-with-a-lost-world-on-its-limbs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/apples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apples</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PlantGenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlantGenetics</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GeneticLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticLibrary</span></a></p>