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I act in the role of Principle Investigator and Scientific Curator for the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale. As part of a project funded by Defra, the University is responsible for maintaining and curating the collection along with our project partners the Farm Advisory Services Team (FAST). The National Fruit Collection contains around 3,500 named cultivars of apple, pear, plum, cherry, vine, and cob nut. In line with Defra鈥檚 commitments to protecting plant genetic resources, we aim to maintain the collection as a genetic resource and increase its value for use in future breeding programmes.

Previous studies include an interdisciplinary project looking into the 'Implications of a nutrition