Geneticists trace humble apple's exotic lineage all the way to the Silk Road. The fruit’s evolutionary history has been unpicked for the first time by studying a range of wild and cultivated apples from China to North America, with genetic data from 117 types, as reported in Nature Communications.

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Geneticists trace humble apple's exotic lineage all the way to the Silk Road. The fruit’s evolutionary history has been unpicked for the first time by studying a range of wild and cultivated apples from China to North America, with genetic data from 117 types, as reported in Nature Communications.