Growing your own fruit at home may sound like it requires a lot of time and effort for healthy trees and bumper harvests. But ...

Get a head start on home harvests by planting bare-root fruit trees this fall. Find the best varieties and learn tips for planting and caring for new trees.

But, back in 2004, the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden released its "Curator Choice Program" that highlighted a series of ...

These elms are a series of new trees cloned by the University that show promise to be resistant to a deadly disease that has killed thousands of elm trees that traditionally line the boulevards and ...

There's a brand-new banana on the block that promises to be at least partially resistant to some of the most deadly diseases inflicting everyone's favorite yellow fruit. In late September ...

With hundreds of varieties of pome (apple) and stone (i.e. peaches ... Organic orchards should only be planted with cultivars that have resistance to disease. All tree fruit crops have very similar ...

It's the world's first edible banana resistant to two diseases that are decimating ... studying the DNA of 150 banana varieties, to make a kind of banana family tree, Fernando García-Bastidas ...

Peach growers need new crops that can adapt to changing conditions like climate, viruses and harvest times. Clemson's Peach ...

USA TODAY spoke with apple breeders, growers and researchers to find the secrets of one of America's most popular fruits.

A few years ago, members of Tsai's lab demonstrated salicylic acid's impact on stress and disease resistance in poplar trees without compromising the plant's growth. They applied this same ...