Jonagold

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'Jonagold'
Malus-Jonagold.jpg
Hybrid parentage 'Golden Delicious' × 'Jonathan'
Cultivar 'Jonagold'
Origin Geneva, New York, USA, 1953
sliced Jonagold

Jonagold is a cultivar of apple which was developed in 1953 in New York State Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, a cross between the crisp Golden Delicious and the blush-crimson Jonathan. They form a large sweet fruit with a thin skin. Because of their large size they are now favoured by commercial growers in many parts of the world. Jonagold is triploid, with sterile pollen, and as such, requires a second type of apple for pollen and is incapable of pollenizing other cultivars. The Jonagored Apple, a sport mutation of Jonagold, was once covered under United States Patent PP05937,[1] now expired.

Jonagold has a green-yellow basic color with crimson, brindled covering colour.

The apple has a fluffily crisp fruit. It is juicy and aromatic and has a sweet-sour taste.

The skin can also turn out fully red or green other than Golden-Red.

It is most popular in Belgium,[2] and according to the US Apple Association website it is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States.[3]

Disease susceptibility

  • Scab: high[4]
  • Powdery mildew: low
  • Cedar apple rust: high
  • Fire blight: high

Descendent cultivars

References

  1. http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/PP5937.html
  2. Browning, Frank. (1998). Apples. New York: North Point Press. p. 105.
  3. Apple varieties by US Apple Association
  4. Dr. Stephen Miller of the USDA Fruit Research Lab in Kearneysville, West Virginia.

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