As global apple industry competition intensifies, apple-producing countries often seek to boost their competitiveness. One way to improve performance is through new growing strategies and scientific research, says Dr. Gordon Brown, director and principal researcher at Scientific Horticulture, a private research company based in Tasmania, Australia. To gauge the state of apple research in major apple-producing countries, Brown looked at the number of Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau International (CAB) abstracts and searched for the number of research papers in 17 different countries, for each five-year period over the last 30 years. He found that worldwide, the number of scientific papers on […]