A key to protecting apples from climate change might be hiding in Michigan’s forests

This native Michigan apple tree could hold the key to saving apples from climate change

A key to protecting apples from climate change might be hiding in Michigan’s forests. 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,…

Key to protecting apples might be hiding in Michigan’s forests

In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some researchers in Michigan are looking for a late bloomer. An apple tree native to the state

A key to protecting apples from climate change might be hiding in Michigan's forests

In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late bloomer.

In an attempt to make the apple trees more resilient to climate change, some researchers in Michigan are looking for a variety that will bloom late.A Michigan native apple tree, the Coronary Malus, learned to fight frost blooming two or three weeks later than trees that produce cultivated apple varieties such as Honeycrisp or Red Delicious. “That doesn’t seem like much, but it’s almost always enough for flowers to escape the deadly spring frosts…

In an attempt to make apple trees more resilient to climate change, some Michigan researchers are looking for a variety that will bloom late.

A key to protecting apples from climate change might be hiding in Michigan’s forests - The Morning Sun

In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some researchers in Michigan are looking for a late bloomer. An apple tree native to the state learned to fight frost by blooming …