Comparing apples to apples: Modern apples are bigger, less acidic, less bitter and perform better during storage than their wild ancestors

Comparing apples to apples: modern apples are bigger, less acidic, less bitter and perform better during storage than their wild ancestors

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250751  

Article Title: Phenotypic divergence between the cultivated apple (Malus domestica) and its primary wild progenitor (Malus sieversii)

Author Countries: Canada

Funding: This work was supported by the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. ZM was supported by the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program 1546869. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.