The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Canada

Mantet

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Raised at Dominion Experimental Station, Morden, Manitoba, Canada. It was introduced in 1929. Fruits have tender, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet, subacid and aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Mantet Canada, by 1929
    • Seed parent Tetofsky

Offspring in the atlas

Mantet
Where Mantet came from.

Sources

  1. Mantet (accession 1963 - 106), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late august).
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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