CREATING A RESPONSE SURFACE FOR FRUIT SET AND FRUIT PRODUCTION IN TOMATOES GROWN AT HIGH TEMPERATURE

Seedless Fruit Production by Hormonal Regulation of Fruit Set

Seed and fruit development are intimately related processes controlled by internal signals and environmental cues. The absence of seeds is usually appreciated by consumers and producers because it increases fruit quality and fruit shelf-life. One method to produce seedless fruit is to develop plants able to produce fruits independently from pollination and fertilization of the ovules. The onset...

Factors Affecting Fruit Set/Early Fruit Drop in Avocado

Pollen Viability and Fruit Set of Tomato Genotypes under Optimum- and High-temperature Regimes

Heat-tolerant and -sensitive Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. and L. pimpinellifolium (Jusl.) Mill. genotypes were grown in the greenhouse under optimum(27/23C, day/night) and high-temperature (35/23C) stress regimes. Heat tolerance levels in the genotypes were established by determining percent fruit set at high and optimum temperatures. Under optimum temperature, fruit set ranged from 41% to 84%...

Genetic differences in fruit-set patterns are determined by differences in fruit sink strength and a source : sink threshold for fruit set.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fruit set in indeterminate plant species largely depends on the balance between source and sink strength. Plants of these species show fluctuations in fruit set during the growing season. It was tested whether differences in fruit sink strength among the cultivars explained the differences in fruit-set patterns. METHODS Capsicum was chosen as a model plant. Six cultivars w...

Jujube fruit water relations at fruit maturation in response to 1 water deficits

water deficits 2 3 A. Galindo, Z.N. Cruz, P. Rodríguez, J. Collado-González, M. Corell, H. 4 Memmi, F. Moreno, A. Moriana, A. Torrecillas, D. Pérez-López 5 6 a Dpto. Riego, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CSIC), 7 P.O. Box 164, E-30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain 8 b Dpto. Fisiología y Bioquímica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas (INCA), 9 Ctra. de Tapaste, km 3.5, San...