CAN ABA HELP MITIGATE BITTER PIT IN 'HONEYCRISP' APPLES? Studies at Michigan State University seek to find out.

2 0 | AMERICAN FRUIT GROWER A ND WESTERN FRUIT GROWER | April 2021 BY KATHIE TAYLOR kathie.taylor@gmail.com TABHEAD E X PAN D E D C O VE R A G E POME FRUIT B ITTER PIT CAN be a troublesome issue, especially for "Honeycrisp" apple growers. CAN ABA HELP MITIGATE BITTER PIT IN "HONEYCRISP" APPLES? Einhorn also ran all the apples over an experimental Compac sorting line to characterize bitter pit by calibrating the number of pixels per fruit with manual measures of the actual disorder present on a fruit's surface. [Extracted from the article]