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Developing future apple varieties – unit plan

In this unit, students investigate trends and drivers and what may be possible and preferable attributes for new fruit varieties in the future.

Halved new apple cultivar showing it's red flesh.

Red-fleshed apple

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The flesh of the new apple cultivar is red all the way through to the core.

Rights: Plant & Food Research
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Purpose

To understand the influences currently driving the development of new apple varieties and encourage critical thinking and informed predictions regarding possible and preferable future cultivar development.

Keywords

Trends, drivers, cultivars, possible and preferable futures.

Developing future apple varieties – unit plan

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Published: 8 June 2011
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