The success of the Cosmic Crisp apple produced aisles across America on December 1, 2019.
The variety comes from the breeding program of Washington State University, which has been developing the apple for more than 20 years.
There are thousands of different types of apples on the market, and 2,500 of these varieties are grown in the United States, such as Granny Smith, Fuji, Honeycrisp and the US favorite, the Gala, which has just beaten the variety Red Delicious for the first time. never.
Scientists are still developing new varieties.
But it’s not just breeding programs that make fruit and vegetable hybrids that almost everyone knows about.
There are also scientists around the world who are working to create new varieties, be it apples or berries, mushrooms or even crops like rice and wheat. In fact, crops have been crossed to produce new varieties for hundreds of years.
Watch the video above to learn more about how horticulturalists and scientists are creating new varieties of fruits and vegetables, and why there is room in the product aisle for innovation.