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Episode: A key to protecting apples from climate change might be hiding in Michigan’s forests
Description: In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late bloomer.
A native Michigan apple tree, 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.
"That doesn't sound like a lot, but almost always that's enough for the flowers to escape the killing spring frost," said Steve van Nocker, a Michigan State University professor and plant geneticist.
Van Nocker wants to identify the genes responsible for the Malus coronaria's delayed...