Sir Prize apple

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

Raised in 1955 by Agricultural Experiment Station, Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey, USA. First fruited in 1961. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy. Resistant to scab.

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

Sir Prize United States, 1955
- Seed parent Doud Golden Delicious United States, by 1952
  - Sport of Golden Delicious United States, 1905
    - Parent Grimes Golden United States, by 1804
- Pollen parent PRI 14-152

Sources

Sir Prize (accession 1974 - 180), 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 (mid october).

Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, triploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 589961 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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