The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious. A key to protecting apples ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

Wild Roots, New Futures The apple as we know it today came from Malus sieversii, a species native to Central Asia. But its journey to grocery stores around the world also involved genes from M.