神秘苹果树：改写美国苹果历史的发现

Breeders, professors and enthusiasts wanted to identify an old orchard relic. They ended up rewriting the history of American apples BY MARYN MCKENNA PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRANT DELIN I Maryn McKenna is a journalist specializing in public health, global health and food policy and is a contributing editor at Scientific American. She is author of Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats (National Geographic Books, 2017). IT WAS A ROUTINE DAY IN THE LABORATORY BELONGING TO cameron Peace on the campus of Washington State University, Pullman, in the high, dry hills close to the Idaho border. …