Consumers want great tasting fruit with few or no blemishes. Growers want that, too, but they also need fruit trees to be easier to grow and, specifically, to be resistant to diseases that can decimate an orchard. A national team of scientists aims to tie those goals together by applying modern genomics to deliver new cultivars that carry both the disease resistance desired by producers and the horticultural qualities demanded by the marketplace. It is no simple task, but researchers have some success with which to build upon their efforts: The RosBREED project enabled researchers to develop the infrastructure to […]