Apples are the most accommodating and long lived of fruit trees, and they cope with our wet climate quite well. There are ...

In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late ...

A team of researchers from Michigan State University discovered a native tree unlocking the secret to protecting apples from cold weather damage. Steve van Nocker, a ...

Van Nocker wants to identify the genes responsible for the Malus coronaria’s delayed blooms and use them to develop more frost-resistant apple varieties, a decades-long process. But first ...