Roots of resilience: the experts working to bolster apples against the climate crisis

Scientists are focusing on improving apples' resilience after stressors like wild temperature swings and drought

Terence 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.