The University of Minnesota’s renowned fruit breeding program has unveiled six new apple and grape varieties designed ...

With more than 7,500 varieties of apples from which to choose, there’s more than one way to “keep the doctor away.” But keeping apples healthy can be as challenging as keeping the humans who love them ...

This story originally aired on September 22, 2022. On Sept. 21, 2023, the University of Minnesota unveiled it’s latest apple variety, Kudos. There’s a good chance your favorite apple was developed by ...

David Bedford is among the first people in the world to have tasted a Honeycrisp apple. He shepherded the champion apple to markets when he started at the University of Minnesota in the 1970s. And ...

What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that... Baking the perfect pie is an art. So is breeding ...