Horticulture

Successful solutions

• Released ‘AAC Eden’, a new summer fruiting red raspberry with excellent fruit size, firmness, flavor and market life.
• Developed controlled atmosphere technologies to extend storage life of apples and small fruit.
• Developed protocols for the use of a rapid and non-destructive light-based harvest maturity model (DA meter) on high value cultivars such as Honeycrisp, Ambrosia, Sonya and SweeTango.
• Identified Honeycrisp apple as a cultivar well-suited to the maritime climate. Honeycrisp now comprises more than 10% of the ~$14 million apple crop in Nova Scotia.
• Released and commercialized new apple (Evangeline, Orangotang) and pear (Green Lantern) cultivars.