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Protocol for selection and evaluation of promising seedlings

Selection Evaluation
You can print this pdf file and use it to evaluate your new seedlings.

Pollination techniques
Text and photos on making crosses

Visit the PRI site for information on scab resistant apples. We have searchable databases for apple germplasm, progeny numbers, and field evaluations.

2011 Newsletter is Here!

We are trying to reduce costs and use less paper by offering the newsletter in pdf form, you can download it using this link: 2011 newsletter.

MAIA Headquarters is moving to Ohio so be sure you use the new address when you send in your dues for 2011.

MAIA
112 North Bridge Street
P.O. Box 70
Newcomerstown, OH 43832

Phone: 800-466-5171
Fax: 740-498-8366
E-mail: bill@ohioapples.com

Newsletter Editor
Chester Bowling bro@ncwcom.com

About MAIA, the Midwest Apple Improvement Association

There is a need for a Midwest apple breeding program. As current apple breeding programs are unlikely to produce varieties that will be economically viable for the lower Midwest

Mission Statement

To develop Economically and Culturally Viable Apple Cultivars for the Midwest

Goals and Activities

1. Champion the cause (the need for a Midwest apple-breeding program), and build a viable membership organization covering the Midwest.
2. Carry out a grower driven, grower involved breeding program with the help of the Ohio State University and other research institutions.
3. Develop and carry out a marketing program for the varieties developed including nursery stock and the apples.

Apple Breeding Objectives

1. Reliable and productive cropping equal to or better than Golden Delicious
2. Fireblight resistances
3. Scab resistances
4. Consumer qualities acceptable to the modern consumer: size, firmness, store-ability, flavor, unique qualities and maturity fitting with current or other new varieties to lengthen the apple harvest and marketing season.

The opportune time is now. Kazakstan apple genetic material, which has been made available to Midwest growers, offers some real hope for developing apple varieties suited to the Midwest. The USDA collected plants have been screened for frost tolerance and disease resistance.

The Kazakstan plant samples have a vast array of diverse genetics. Crossbreeding Kazakstan stock with the best modern varieties will provide new sources of disease resistance, cropping reliability and unique quality characteristics.

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