A new variety of apple will be available in stores December 1. "Cosmic Crisp" was developed by plant breeders at Washington State University over a 20-year period beginning in 1997.
"Move over, Honeycrisp... This will be the largest launch of a single variety ever, globally." - Kathryn Grandy, Proprietary Variety Management (PVM), quoted in an AP story.
PVM is assured that only licensed growers shall be able to get the trees from nurseries. PVM maintains a database which includes the GPS location of each tree, 12 million of which are planted in Washington state.
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