In recent years, the application of isotopically labeled substrates has received extensive attention in plant physiology. Measuring the propagation of the label through metabolic networks may provide information on carbon allocation in sink fruit during fruit development. In this research, gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling was used to characterize the ch...

To clarify the relationship between pollen density and gametophytic competition in Pyrus pyrifolia, gametophytic performance, gibberellin metabolism, fruit set, and fruit quality were investigated by modifying P. pyrifolia pollen grain number and density with Lycopodium spores. Higher levels of pollen density improved seed viability, fruit set, and fruit quality. Treatments with the highest pol...

fruit yield efficiency and some vegetative characteristics of commercial and spur type apple. cultivars was evaluated in dr. nakhjavani field station, orumieh, iran, in 2008 and 2009 growing seasons. apple cultivars included: red spur, red chief, golden spur, yellow spur, fujii, red delicious, cooper spur, red cooper spur, jonathan, golden delicious, oregon spur, jonagold. the experimental desi...

quality are influenced by many factors, including climatic conditions and production practices. In subtropical climates, the temperature usually falls below 70°F for several months during winter. This period of cool temperatures causes growth to cease and citrus trees to become dormant for about three months. The cool temperatures during this dormant period promote floral induction. When warm s...

The effects of partial root-zone drying (PRD) on tomato fruit growth and proteome in the pericarp of cultivar Ailsa Craig were investigated. The PRD treatment was 70% of water applied to fully irrigated (FI) plants. PRD reduced the fruit number and slightly increased the fruit diameter, whereas the total fruit fresh weight (FW) and dry weight (DW) per plant did not change. Although the growth r...

apricot (prunus armeniaca), palys an important role in fruit production industry in iran. irregular set of fruit, caused by either sterility of flower organs or incompatibility has been the main problem in apricot production over the years. in this study, it has been attempted to determine these phenomena for four apricot cvs. namely ‘shahroodi’, ‘nasiri’, ‘jahangiri’ and ‘noori’ through the me...

Several years ago we started a broad research project dealing with the relation between the level of endogenous growth substances and the development of avocado fruit. In the course of the study, we attempted to grow cultures of avocado fruit tissue and to determine their response to the addition of growth substance. It was hoped that in this way we might learn something about the special natur...

in order to evaluate the effect of different levels of drought stress and nitrogen fertilizer on growth of strawberry plants, present study was conducted in the mazandaran province in 2010. experiment was carried out as factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications. drought stress treatments (30, 50 and 70% maximum allowable depletion of moistur (mad)) and nitrogen...