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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of development and consumer testing researchers have given the hottest new apples in the Empire State names worthy of their unique assets: SnapDragon and RubyFrost. After years of ...

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 ...