While not associated with the Midwest Apple Improvement Association as its apple breeder, Ohio State University’s Dr. Diane Doud Miller has credentials as an apple geneticist and researcher with a special interest in working with apples from their original home in the central Asian countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. She also grew up on an Indiana fruit farm where she saw the devastation late freezes can cause. She is listed as a ­special advisor to the MAIA. When the Soviet Union collapsed, United States researchers, led by Phillip Forsline, the curator of the USDA’s Plant Genetics […]