You take a bite out of your midday apple and it’s just perfect: the right amount of crunch, juice, sweet and sour. You imagine saving its hard brown seeds and planting them in the ground. One day ...

Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) breeding is a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. Although a large number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with apple fruit appearance and quality ...

In the face of climate change, apple breeding programs need innovative ways to select cultivars that can thrive under diverse conditions. A recent study demonstrates how integrating genomic data with ...

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... An apple is an ovary: The science of apple ...

The apple breeding program at the University of Minnesota has been a long-standing tradition that has brought the University much-deserved attention across the country. As apple season reaches its ...

David Bedford has been “saving the world from mediocre apples” for 40-plus years. Yes, Red Delicious, we’re looking at you. Bedford, an apple breeder for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum ...

Proportion of phenotypic variation associated with individual (i.e., advanced selection, cultivar, parent, progenitor, or unselected offspring), year, year × ...