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A novel experimental data set was generated in which the temperature of exposed grape berry clusters was measured with thermocouples at four field sites with different trellis systems, topography, and climate. Experimental measurements indicated that the temperature of shaded berries closely followed the ambient air temperature, but intermittent periods of direct solar radiation could generate…

Silencing this gene inhibits tomato fruit ripening . DNA methylation in plants regulates molecular processes such as gene expression and transposon silencing, which in turn modulates biological and developmental processes, and response to biotic and abiotic stress . During tomato fruit ripening, DNA demethylation is active, such that the global DNA methylation level is reduced…

Many of the genes in the MG core response were either functionally similar to other RR core response genes or were expressed at low levels. Thus, the ability to mount an immune response does not appear to be compromised in RR fruit. If defense responses do not determine the outcome of the interaction in tomato…

To date, B. cinerea biocontrol products are mostly Bacillus subtilis-based, but their use in commercial strawberry production is limited because of their insufficient applicability in the field or supply chain . Nevertheless, there is social and scientific interest in using biocontrol against B. cinerea as an alternative to chemical pesticides. Isolates of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Epicoccum…

Although we have not characterized the type of inoculum that is spreading from source to target fruit, our observations that source fruits or tissue sections without visible mycelium or sporulation were more effective in contact inoculation, we hypothesize that the disease is spread by fungal hyphae that are moving from infected tissues to healthy ones…

However, given that height of reproductive adults varies substantially more among than within species, it need not follow that the more limited inter individual variation in plant height will be a major driver of inter individual variation in seed dispersal distances. Nonetheless, limited empirical evidence suggests that inter individual height variation might be at least a minor driver…

The two regions also overlapped with the DNA family transposable element At2TE50665, suggesting that these may represent coding sequences of the transposon, rather than AtCLV3 regulators. When examined with the 5bp sliding window, the two conserved blocks were found to be surrounded on both sides by a strikingly periodic arrangement of three cis-motifs, spaced 11bp…

Recognition of this pattern of senescence thus suggests that many trees do not produce one large inflorescence, but instead produce many smaller ones.Another phenomenon that has frequently been correlated with alternate bearing is the abscission of immature fruit. Descriptively called a “fruit drop”, the abscission of immature fruit often appears to occur in three distinct…

The total soluble solids of the transgenic fruit was consistently lower than non-transgenic samples throughout cold storage, as well as after rewarming . Respiration rates were significantly higher in Sh-13 compared to non-transgenic fruit throughout cold storage, except for day 4 . However, after rewarming all three genotypes were the same. Interestingly, CO2 emission in Sh-13…

Pulsed electric field is also another extraction technique that can be applied at room temperature conditions and performed in a matter of seconds requiring low energy to increase cell membrane breakdown in mass transfer which were applied previously in several fruits such as strawberry and grapes.,e analysis of phenolic acids and flavonoids by liquid and/or gas…