Researchers analyzed over 40 years of climate conditions that impact the growth cycle of apple trees from bud break and flowering through fruit development, maturation and color development.

This is what a recent study published in Environmental Research Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Washington State University (WSU) investigated how decades of climate change have ...

“Changing climate conditions over multiple parts of the growth cycle pose potentially compounding ... more complex is the fact that apple trees are perennials — meaning, they bear fruit ...