As one might expect, their responses to our 2025 State of the Fruit and Nut Industry survey are provocative, starting with, ...

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

According to a report by Treehugger, from fuji to honeycrisp, apples come in many flavors and each of them carry a different story too.

Betty’s Apple House will feature interpretive exhibits to share the science and history behind the U of M’s fruit breeding research at the Arboretum’s Horticultural Research Center – including the ...

Heirloom apple trees almost always need at least one pollinator tree to set fruit. Choose a pollinator tree of a different variety that blooms around the same time; for Black Oxford, this is midseason ...

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

Sunflare was birthed from pollination and not engineered or modified in any way — “we do what the bees do,” said retired apple breeder Bruce Barritt, who launched the university breeding ...

Sunflare was birthed from pollination and not engineered or modified in any way — “we do what the bees do,” said retired apple breeder Bruce Barritt, who launched the university breeding ...

Researchers at WSU first developed the apple in 1998 when they hand-pollinated a Honeycrisp flower with pollen from a Pink Lady tree at the university’s Columbia View Research Orchard.

A new apple variety will soon hit grocery stores thanks to researchers at Washington State University.