An apple is an ovary: The science of apple breeding : Short Wave

✍️ Hannah Chinn Rachel Carlson Emily Kwong Rebecca Ramirez, Hannah Chinn, Rachel Carlson, Emily Kwong, Rebecca Ramirez 📅 November 18, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: November 18, 2025

Summary: What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that apple made it to your local grocery store or orchard it had to be invented — by a scientist. So today, we're going straight to the source: Talking to an apple breeder. Producer Hannah Chinn reports how apples are selected, bred, grown ... and the discoveries that could change that process. Plus, what's a "spitter"?Read more of Hannah's apple reporting

An apple is an ovary: The science of apple breeding

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Hannah Chinn Rachel Carlson Emily Kwong Rebecca Ramirez, Hannah Chinn, Rachel Carlson, Emily Kwong, Rebecca Ramirez

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