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  • Introducing STELLAR™: a game-changer for early season apple lovers

    30 Sep 2024 
    The Hot Climate Partnership is set to unveil STELLAR™,
    the world’s first early season apple variety specifically
    bred for hot and warming climates next week at Fruit Attraction in Madrid. 

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  • World’s first apple variety bred specifically for a hot climate unveiled at Berlin Fruit Logistica

    10 Feb 2023
    Following twenty years of breeding and scientific development, Tutti™, the world’s first specifically bred hot climate tolerant apple variety, was commercially launched at Berlin Fruit Logistica trade show today.

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  • Breeding programme focused on growing in hot climates evolves

    10 Feb 2023
    The world’s only breeding programme focused on apples and pears for hot climates has a fresh new look.

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  • Introducing a hot new apple

    1 Nov 2021
    The name is a bit of a giveaway – ‘HOT84A1’ – but this apple is different. It’s the first release from the New Zealand-Spain collaborative Hot Climate Programme (HCP) tailored for growing in hot climates.

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  • New apples pip the world

    14 Mar 2021
    NZ science is protecting the world’s red apples from the worst effects of climate change.

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  • First apple to be launched from Hot Climate Programme

    10 July 2020
    The first apple tailored specifically for growing in hot climate regions has been released from the New Zealand-Spain collaborative Hot Climate Programme.

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  • Global apple & pear breeding programme heats up

    7 Feb 2019
    New, superior tasting apples and pears that can thrive in the planet’s increasingly warm climate will soon be available to fruit growers worldwide.

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