Open AccessIssue Information
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plants, people, planet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2572-2611
DOI - 10.1002/ppp3.10237
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , biodiversity , library science , courtesy , citation , value (mathematics) , collection development , computer science , geography , political science , biology , ecology , law , machine learning
Canada's Apple Biodiversity Collection (Nova Scotia, Canada) with a rainbow above. Apples are one of the most widely consumed fruits and provide significant nutritional value worldwide. Please see Watts et al's article “ Quantifying apple diversity: A phenomic characterization of Canada's Apple Biodiversity Collection” in this issue, which presents a comprehensive evaluation of apple diversity in Canada's Apple Biodiversity Collection, a collection of over 1000 apple varieties. They show that commercially successful apple varieties capture only a small fraction of apple diversity, and demonstrate that significant improvement is possible by tapping into existing genetic diversity. Image courtesy of Sean Myles.