Localized bursting of mesocarp cells triggers catastrophic fruit cracking

Fruit Cracking in Tomato

dom’ reached anthesis most rapidly, while plants of ‘Mathilde Gütges’ and ‘Merritt’s Supreme’ were the slowest to f-lower. Table 2 represents days to anthesis and not days to salable color. In general, plants were salable, based on sepal color, ≈10 days before anthesis, so subtracting 10 days from data in Table 2 gives forcing times (from start to sale) for these cultivars when a 62F (17C) mini...

Cytokinin and inhibitor activities in the avocado fruit mesocarp.

No cytokinin activity was found in methanolic mesocarp extracts after purification with petroleum ether and ethyl acetate. Cytokinin activity did appear, however, in aqueous fraction after acid hydrolysis or passage through Dowex 50 (H(+)) ion exchange columns. The level of this activity, the fruit growth rate, and the cell division rate were found to be positively correlated (with each other)....

Effect of gibberellic acid on fruit cracking in meykhosh pomegranate

CA3 cocentration for controling fruit cracking in pomegranates

Water deficit-induced changes in mesocarp cellular processes and the relationship between mesocarp and endocarp during olive fruit development.

A field experiment was conducted during two consecutive growing seasons to determine and quantify the growth response of the olive (Olea europaea L. cv. Leccino) fruit and of its component tissues to tree water status. Pre-dawn leaf water potential (Psi(w)) and fruit volume were measured at about weekly intervals, and fresh weight (FW) and dry weight (DW) of the fruit tissues at 15, 20 and 21 w...