Q: We want to plant a few fruit trees in our back yard. The man at the nursery told us that all their trees were “low chill” trees. Now, I’m wondering just what he meant by that. A: You were talking ...

As Central Valley almond production increased by more than 350,000 acres over the last quarter century, many growers previously unfamiliar with the crop planted orchards, some of them even new to tree ...

An international team led by researchers has sequenced the genome of the almond tree and compared it to that of its closest relative, the peach tree. The most substantive differences between these ...