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An apple is the round, edible fruit of an apple tree. Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple, the most widely grown in the genus, are cultivated worldwide. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Eurasia before they were introduced to North America by European colonists. Apples have cultural significance in many mythologies and religions.

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Microbial community succession and dynamics during the season-long ...

Understanding the 'good' microbes naturally living on apples could eventually replace or reduce c...

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Multiple origins of the apple seed microbiome: disentangling sexual...

The bacteria living inside the apple seeds you plant—or that apple trees pass to their offspring—...

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High-resolution distribution map of apple orchards in China based o...

China grows more apples than any other country, and knowing exactly where those orchards are help...

bioRxiv → · preprint

Reduced confidence intervals and novel candidate genes for quantita...

The apples at your grocery store or farmers market likely come from orchards drenched in fungicid...

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Phenological growth phases of dwarf apple trees: coding and descrip...

Knowing exactly when your apple tree is budding, flowering, or setting fruit lets you time your w...

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Genome study maps the war between fire blight and its viruses

Fire blight can turn a healthy backyard apple or pear tree into blackened, dying branches in a si...

Europe PMC → · research article

Fruit tree netting blocks pests but also drives away pollinators

The netted apple, cherry, or nut orchard you pass on a drive through farm country is quietly cutt...

Robot arm learns to prune and pick fruit trees

The gnarled apple tree in your backyard that takes a professional pruner years of trained eye to ...

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One protein family controls how fruit gets its color

The next time you watch a tomato turn red on the vine or an apple blush in the fall sun, a specif...

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Gene editing could give apple trees natural disease immunity

If you've ever grown an apple tree and watched its leaves develop dark blotchy spots by midsummer...

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New AI combo spots apple leaf disease with near-perfect accuracy

If you've got an apple tree in your backyard with mysterious spotted leaves, this kind of tool co...

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AI plus crop science predicts apple harvest dates more accurately

If you grow apple trees, knowing that chilling hours and elevation drive ripening timing more tha...

AI helps robots figure out how to grab apples right

The next time you see an autonomous harvester rolling through an orchard, this is the kind of vis...

New AI catches tiny apple leaf diseases other tools miss

If you grow apple trees, catching rust or leaf spot while it's still a few small dots on a handfu...

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