Outstanding apple research

摘要

Mark Christensen was elected as recipient of the NZ Tree Crops Association annual prize for contribution to Tree Cropping for 2006, the Dr Don McKenzie Award. This honours Mark's outstanding recent research relating apples and cancer prevention. Mark's contribution is to have tested the old heritage apples using science's most modern analytical tool. No apple industry group or medical research science unit did this: Tree Crops did this, and set the whole scientific community ablaze. Mark has been contributing Apple (anti-cancer) articles to the Tree Cropper for over 6 years. His articles are printed in national magazines, and attract international scientific cooperation, and give a high profile to NZTCA.