Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

Some apple varieties have been specifically cultivated ... Rediscovered in the late 1900s, found in a cluster of 100-plus year old trees by Roy Slamm, this antique variety is a dessert and ...

In developing new types of apples, researchers combine old attributes with new ones, Bedford says. “We still need it to grow well and live and be resistant to insects and those sort of things ...

USA TODAY spoke with apple breeders, growers and researchers to find the secrets of one of America's most popular fruits.

Delving into old county fair records, nursery sales ledgers, newspaper clippings and tips from people and scouring hills, ...

David Benscoter, of the Lost Apple Project,8 has written an interesting history of the search for lost apples in Eastern Washington. To date, Benscoter and his group have rediscovered around 30 apples ...

I've been interested in old varieties all my life. "I showed some fruit to a botanist, who was very curious about a single tree bearing bright yellow apples. It took DNA testing to identify the ...

Many varieties of apples are available as both container-grown stock or as bare-root whips, which are one-year-old single-stem trees without any side branches. Hundreds of different apple varieties ...

Today's apples don't grow on towering trees, could have been picked in 2023, and taste way different than they used to. And that's just the beginning of the surprising modern reality of a ...

most American supermarkets sold only a few apple varieties – Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Granny Smiths. “It was red, yellow and green. That was it,” said Carolina Torres, a professor ...