Pilot
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at the Institute of Fruit Research, Dresden-Pillnitz, Germany. Introduced in 1988. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh. Resistant to fireblight.
Sources
- Pilot (accession 1994 - 016), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october).
- 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).
