The State Register of Plant Varieties the Republic Belarus includes 6 varieties large-fruited cranberry: Ben Lear, Franklin, Howes, McFarlin, Piligrim, Stevens. Based on results study, it was determined that morphological features leaf, stem and fruit cranberry are plant-specific indicators make possible to identify taxa this crop.

Many fruit trees undergo cycles of heavy fruit load (ON-Crop) in one year, followed by low fruit load (OFF-Crop) the following year, a phenomenon known as alternate bearing (AB). The mechanism by which fruit load affects flowering induction during the following year (return bloom) is still unclear. Although not proven, it is commonly accepted that the fruit or an organ which senses fruit presen...

The domestication of the tomato Solanum lycopersicum and associated selective pressures eventually led to the large-fruited varieties cultivated today. S. lycopersicum varieties are generally red-fruited, but display considerable variance in fruit colour intensity, shape, and quality. The increase in productivity on cultivation is, however, somewhat offset by the narrowing of the crops genetic ...

Andromonoecy is hypothesized to evolve as a mechanism enabling plants to independently allocate resources to female and male function. If staminate flower production is a mechanism to regulate allocation to female function (i.e., fruit production), then large-fruited species should be more strongly andromonoecious than smaller-fruited taxa because more resources are required to mature large fru...

We compared post-agricultural succession across the range of farming activities practiced in Guatemala’s northern lowlands: agroforestry, swidden, ranching, and input-intensive monocultures. At 10 sites over 13 to 40 months we assessed the following characteristics of trees and shrubs that were 1 cm diameter at breast height: height, basal-area accumulation, recruitment of all individuals and f...

Alien plants are a growing threat to the Galápagos unique biota. We evaluated the impact of alien plants on eight seed dispersal networks from two islands of the archipelago. Nearly 10 000 intact seeds from 58 species were recovered from the droppings of 18 bird and reptile dispersers. The most dispersed invaders were Lantana camara, Rubus niveus and Psidium guajava, the latter two likely benef...

The tree tomato (Solanum betaceum Cav.) is an underutilized fruit crop native to the Andean region and phylogenetically related potato. Tree fruits have a high amount of nutrients bioactive compounds. However, so far there are no studies at genome or transcriptome level for this species. We performed de novo assembly annotation purple-fruited (A21) orange-fruited (A23) accessions. A total 174,2...