Wild Crabapples Could Improve Domestic Varieties Genetically

a young woman sits under a short tree with a sprawling canopy on WashU campus
A student works at a laptop under a Japanese flowering crabapple tree outside Olin Library on the WashU Danforth Campus. America's species of wild crabapples have provided useful genetic data for WashU plant scientist Ben Mansfeld in understanding the stressors affecting domestic apple crops. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)
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