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Episode: Chris Gottschalk about the Apples Behind the Cider
Description: On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Chris Gottschalk. Chris is in the final year of his Ph.D. candidacy in the joint Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology and Horticulture program. His dissertation research is focused on deciphering the genetic mechanisms that cause biennial bearing in apple trees under the mentorship of Dr. Steve van Nocker, a developmental geneticist in the Horticulture Department. Biennial bearing is a phenomenon that is characterized as a cyclic pattern between high- and low-production seasons that affects some high-value apple cultivars, such as Honeycrisp. Chris also studies the diversity of...