Apple trees are an investment not just in one's kitchen (fresh apples? delicious), but also in the value of one's home and ...

The apple varieties whose flavors are familiar from the supermarket, such as Granny Smith, Fuji or Honeycrisp, are sprayed regularly with fungicides and other chemicals in commercial orchards.

An apple tree in flower. The anther is the yellow section at the tip of the flower's stamens. Scientists like Susan Brown collect pollen from the anther and use it to cross-pollinate with other trees.

Alongside the apple’s desirable traits, including cold-hardiness, taste and texture and resistance to some common diseases, it also presents challenges to growers. Honeycrisp apple trees tend to ...

Apple breeding is a lengthy process, taking up to thirty years for a new apple variety to hit the market after cross-pollination. The tree that Bedford saved in 1982 was one of four clones of MN ...

It’s the oldest Honeycrisp apple tree in the world. “It’s been pretty productive” said Bedford. “I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of probably 20 million trees worldwide.

Man behind iconic Honeycrisp apple retires, passing the torch to former student. ... If the seed grows into a tree that can survive a Minnesota winter, then the apples move on to the taste test.

ITHACA, N.Y. – A team of researchers has sequenced the Honeycrisp apple genome, a boon for scientists and breeders working with this popular and economically important cultivar. Sequenced with ...

Walk through the neat, green rows of apple trees at Linvilla Orchards, the 335-acre, family-run farm outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and you'll spot a little white sign that reads, "New ...

With more than 5,000 trees in its orchard to pick from, Wickham Farm’s Dale Wickham says this year they’ve been very fortunate with their apple harvest. "The crop looks awesome.