Why are most of the breeding efforts regarding apples involved in a narrow group of traits?

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Why are most of the breeding efforts regarding apples involved in breeding apples that are Red or yellow with no russeting? Historically this was not the case and breeding efforts were often in the opposite direction, what caused the shift?

Arbind K. Choudhary

You can check the following:

https://www.ishs.org/ishs-article/484_26

https://www.popsci.com/apple-genealogy/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257826786_Apples

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