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i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social

@i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social

I am an apple breeder and geneticist. My research focuses in genotypically characterizing the world's economically, historically, and culturally important apple cultivars to develop new apple cultivars and to preserve wild apples and historic cultivars

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i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social @i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An article recently came out on the rediscovery of an ancient French apple in Maine that I had a hand in: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

scientificamerican.com

How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social @i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Coauthors and I published a paper on an apple ancestry model: rdcu.be/fnI6j With this model scientists can estimate the wild species ancestry of any apple sample genotyped on the same set of DNA markers. We will be applying the model to a big dataset of >11,000 accessions in our next publication.

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i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social @i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The next paper that is nearing submission will be on related the different wild species of apples to cultivated apples and to various apples held in germplasm collections. Here is an image from an early proof of concept test I conducted in 2020 while I was still a post-doc.

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i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social @i-enjoy-apples.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I used to post to Twitter to communicate my scientific publications mostly in the area of apple genomics/genetics, particularly in the area of pedigree reconstruction and ancestry in apples. I will now do so on Bluesky.

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