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 ...

The sweetness factor is likely to be the most important consideration you make when buying apples. But figuring out which of these new-fangled apple varieties are sweetest means buying apple after ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you long to diversify your land by planting an apple tree, you will find that most apple varieties require cross-pollination by honeybees in order to bear fruit. This requires planting at least two ...

A new Apple product (a real fruit) called “Cosmic Crisp,” which took over 20 years of expensive development and boasts an ultra-long shelf life—up to a year when kept in the fridge—hit the market in ...