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.

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

There are disease-resistant and self-fertile varieties of pears to plant, though pears will do better when grown with other ...

In choosing peach trees for planting in Northeast Ohio, it’s crucial to focus on selecting varieties well-suited to the local climate and resistant to diseases. Here are the key considerations ...

Only peach and nectarine varieties with bacterial spot resistance should be grown in ... weeks before harvest for brown rot. Combination tree fruit spray products are available that may control both ...

and later varieties through August into early September. Peach trees can be attacked by aphids, birds, red spider mites, earwigs and root-knot nematodes. Diseases include botrytis, bacterial ...

The tree requires minimal care and has excellent disease resistance. 'Cogshall' is another good compact mango cultivar that ...

The most commonly planted fruit trees are apple trees but you don't always have to follow convention. Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good results. Different varieties produce ...

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 ...

The first citrus trees appeared about eight ... the first step towards breeding new varieties of citrus fruits, both with desirable flavour and disease-resistance," said lead researcher Guohong ...

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 ...

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