The Cosmic Crisp, with its remarkable taste and long shelf life, is one of the latest apples to be ushered from seed to supermarket.
In the state of Washington, where about 60 percent of the country’s apple supply is grown, researchers at Washington State University’sworked to develop Cosmic Crisp for growers’ bank accounts and consumers’ taste buds.
Any resulting seeds are taken to greenhouses, where they germinate and sprout into seedlings. Each seed is genetically different, Evans says — not unlike genetic differences between siblings from the same human parents. When the seedlings are planted in orchards, they grow into fruit-producing trees that are carefully evaluated.
Some apples are refrigerated for months on end before being tested — to see how well they hold up in storage. This is critical, as apples are made available year-round in the U.S. and must survive long transport to places they don’t naturally grow. Eventually, Washington apple stakeholders visit the orchards of the best propagated trees and an advisory committee, which Evans oversees, provides input on the pros and cons of a given variety. In the end, however, it is she who makes the final decision on whether to release something to commercial growers.For Cosmic Crisp, the entire process from original cross-combination to commercial release spanned two decades. Evans says this is a fairly standard timeline.
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