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

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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.

Researchers want to identify genes responsible for the tree's delayed blooms and use them to develop more frost-resistant apple varieties.

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