Scientists are focusing on improving apples’ resilience after stressors like wild temperature swings and droughtTerence Robinson still remembers the Valentine’s Day Massacre – of 2015, not 1929.For the Cornell University horticulture professor, the term doesn’t conjure up Tommy guns and Al Capone’s Chicago. Instead of a gangster, the culprit in Robinson’s massacre was the weather. And its victims were the apple orchards of the north-eastern United States. Continue reading…