WSU selections available for tasting, during a new variety showcase at the Washington State Horticultural Association’s annual meeting. Washington apple growers are being offered the opportunity to evaluate Washington State University’s new variety WA2 in their orchards. WSU has licensed the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission to make WA2 available to the Washington apple industry. Under an agreement drawn up between the Research Commission and the WSU Research Foundation, which owns the variety, only growers who take part in the evaluations will be allowed to grow it commercially. WSU’s breeding program puts potential new varieties through several phases of testing. […]