Ainsleigh Rice from the Marcher Apple Network has recently written a very interesting and useful review of the DNA Fingerprinting initiative for us.
He explains how DNA fingerprinting can work, using marker pairs of DNA sequences, and gives some examples. It’s complicated – you will need to concentrate! And he goes on to discuss what this can (or cannot) tell us about each variety’s parentage.
The full text – as a pdf – can be read below or downloaded via this link.
Click to access Malus-Parentage-from-DNA-for-GOT-15Sep20.pdf