ancient apple germplasm that have played a major role in the domestication of the Malus
genus. However, so far locally grown Anatolian apple germplasm has largely been
uncharacterized. In this study, 171 local apple (M. domestica Borkh.) accessions originated
from eco‐geographically diverse regions of Anatolia were studied using 16 SSR (simple
sequence repeat) loci, which generated 254 alleles. Of the SSR markers used, the CH04g10 …