I've been looking for the apple variety "Indo" that was used in the Japanese breeding program. The cross Indo X Golden Delicious has yielded several noteworthy Japanese apples, namely Mutsu, Orin Korei and Shin Indo amongst others.
All I've managed to find out about Indo is that it's a 20th Century variety presumably from the Netherlands. Indo is not to be found anywhere, it's not in GRIN and it's not in Botner's collection either. I find this puzzling given that it seems a good breeding stock apple. I was looking for it for my breeding experiments.
Any help on finding this variety would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Hi - just joined this forum (I was googling for info on Japanese varieties and your post came up) so sorry to be a couple of years late in replying!
The NFC in Britain holds this variety and supplies scionwood - maybe not that much use to yourself with the huge problems of importation, but they often have more information than is shown on the website and might be worth contacting.
Here is the link:
http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org. ... ruit=apple
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