`Pink Lady' Apple

Abstract

Pink Lady' has been released from the Western Australian apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) breeding program designed to produce late-maturing, long-storing cultivars. 'Pink Lady' fruit mature 8 to 9 weeks after those of 'Red Delicious' and are of superior size, appearance, and flavor relative to those of other late-maturing cultivars. Origin 'Pink Lady' originated from a cross between 'Lady Williams' and 'Golden Delicious' made at the Stoneville Horticultural Research Station near Perth, Western Australia (lat. 32°S, long. 116ºE), in 1973 by J.E.L. Cripps. The aim of the cross was to combine the sweet, superficial-scald-free fruit of 'Golden Delicious' with the firm, long-storing fruit of 'Lady Williams'. The latter is a Western Australian chance seedling that probably resulted from across between 'Granny Smith' and 'Rokewood' (a cultivar of unknown parentage). 'Rokewood' was used as a long-storing cultivar in the days before refrigeration. The 'Pink Lady' seedling (formerly 10/1 38) was selected in 1979 and propagated on MM.101 rootstock for advanced testing in 1980. It was released to the industry for commercial evaluation in 1986.

Impact of appearance on degree of liking and eating quality expectations of selected apple cultivars

“…Consumers who were familiar with ‘Pink Lady ™ ’ possibly realised that they did not receive the corresponding ‘Pink Lady ™ ’ taste sample or their expected preference for ‘Pink Lady ™ ’ was not met. The first‐grade Pink Lady ™ fruit used in this study scored low for sensorial textural attributes (Table ), thus deviating from the characteristic crispy, crunchy and hard texture associated with this cultivar (Cripps et al ., ; Corrigan et al ., ). We therefore expected that the ‘Pink Lady ™ ’ fruit used in this study would score lower because the fruit quality was not consistent with the taste expectations for this cultivar.…”

Founding Clones, Inbreeding, Coancestry, and Status Number of Modern Apple Cultivars

“…Pedigrees of 439 apple cultivars (total of 377) and breeding selections from around the world were collected from available literature (Brooks and Olmo, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1984, 1991de Coster, 1986;Cripps et al, 1993;Dayton et al, 1977;Fischer, 1993a, 1993b;Korban et al, 1990;Le Lezec and Babin, 1992;Sadamori et al, 1973;Sansavini, 1993;Smith, 1971;Tamba et al, 1992;Wang, 1990;Williams et al, 1967Williams et al, , 1975Williams et al, , 1984Yamada et al, 1980). From this database, 77 cultivars of known parentage released since 1970 were sampled to represent a range of countries of origin (Table 1).…”

Response of Pink Lady®apples to post-harvest application of 1-methylcyclopropene as a function of applied dose, maturity at harvest, storage time and controlled atmosphere storage

“…8,9 'Pink Lady ® ' apples originated from a cross between 'Lady Williams' and 'Golden Delicious'. 10 Since 1990, this cultivar has been extensively cultivated in the main apple-producing areas of the world, because of its excellent sensory attributes: it is firm, has fine dense flesh, is crisp and juicy, provides excellent flavour, and has a high sugar-acid balance. 11 To the authors' knowledge only a few studies have investigated the effects of 1-MCP on the post-harvest quality of Pink Lady ® apples.…”