Pacello came up with the name of the apple variety as part of his membership with the Midwest Apple Improvement Association ...

The Honeycrisp apple changed the apple industry. It quickly became a favorite of grocery stores and moved from an eating apple into processed foods. But the Honeycrisp has its faults. As plant ...

The Cosmic Crisp, with its remarkable taste and long shelf life, is one of the latest apples to be ushered from seed to supermarket. While there are already many apple varieties to tempt someone with, ...

Knowing it can take an apple tree anywhere from two to 10 years to bear fruit, the owners of Tuttle Orchards started years ...

Washington State University unveiled the name of the school’s latest apple breed in December 2024: Sunflare – inspired by the pink and yellow colors of the fruit (Courtesy Jeremy K. Tamsen, Washington ...

Have you seen how many types of apples there are in the produce section these days? It seems like every couple of months there's a new species promising to be sweeter and juicier than all the others.

Researchers at Cornell University have successfully sequenced the Honeycrisp apple genome, which will help scientists and breeders work to create the “perfect” apple. The process used, called genome ...

Having delicious apples right in your back yard is a treat. Our Master gardener will help you decide to go for a dwarf apple tree or standard variety.

University of Minnesota apple breeder David Bedford treats the apples he breeds like his children. It makes sense because the time it takes to cultivate the perfect apple is nearly 30 years. Last ...

It takes apples about five months to ripen, but the first variety developed in Maryland is taking a bit longer than that to fully mature. The University of Maryland has landed a long-awaited patent ...

Geneva, NY -- For a couple of years, the two newest apple varieties developed by researchers at Cornell University have gone by the clunky names NY1 and NY2. Today, they were unveiled as SnapDragon ...