Abscission is the regulated process of detachment of an organ from a plant. In apple the abscission of fruits occurs during their early development to control the fruit load depending on the nutritional state of the plant. In order to control production and obtain fruits with optimal market qualities, the horticultural procedure of thinning is performed to further reduce the number of fruitlets...

Apple (Malus × domestica) represents an interesting model tree crop for studying fruit abscission. The physiological fruitlet drop occurring in this species can be easily magnified by using thinning chemicals, such as benzyladenine (BA), to obtain fruits with improved quality and marketability. Despite the economic importance of this process, the molecular determinants of apple fruitlet absciss...

It is not known to what degree growth and fruit yield are source-limited in everbearing strawberry plants. The performance effect of bi-weekly removal all runners and/or one or two leaves during the cropping season tunnel-grown ‘Favori’ plants was determined. Plants were grown on a table-top system an open plastic tunnel under natural light conditions Norway from May October. Removal 5 June unt...