Describing the genetic diversity of historic apple trees in Boulder County is important as climate change could alter
what strains can survive in the Front Range in the future, and
Can we see the apparent admixed history leading to the domestic apples in our data? Is there a simple, single common ancestor to apples in Boulder?
We used example apple tree sequences from NCBI to analyze population structure using complementary methods PcAdapt and Ohana, newer tools for inferring biogeography. The apples that are present in Boulder county are of broad geographic origins.
Keywords: Malus, genomics, Boulder, apples, biogeography\ref{197013}