"22 years from cross to launch".
It will be interesting to see if the time to market will be cut in the near future which could lead to an explosion of new flavours and produce products.
Making new apple breeds is mostly creating a bunch of variations/hybrids, and waiting 5 years for it to produce fruit.
This is a good read on it: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/apples-breeding-experi...
It’s old news now as it’s all been settled. But in the Apple/Fruit world, this was a closely watched lawsuit.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/cosmic-crisp-conflict-washingt...