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At the fruit-specific level, ABA maintained a higher number of functional xylem vessels at early stages of growth and development, reducing the resistance to Ca2+ movement in the fruit and thus allowing Ca2+ to be translocated towards the blossom-end tissue. Such Ca2+ accumulation in the blossom-end tissue was enhanced in response to whole-plant ABA treatment,…

The gene expression patterns of CNR, NOR, and RIN across ripening stages were decreased or delayed in each of the single ripening mutants.The most substantial variation in gene expression was the downregulation of NOR and RIN expression across all stages in the Cnr mutant . We present for the first time double ripening mutants, homozygous…

They were dried in a forced-air drying oven at 55°C for seven days, reweighed and used to calculate dry matter percentage. All yields were recorded on a dry matter basis , adjusting plot weights by the average dry matter percentage.An experiment was established in April 2018 consisting of four replications laid out in a randomized…

The peduncular section of the hybrid-derived lineage did appear to be where the most successful of the fathers sires its seeds. This is also the section of the fruit were there is a positive effect of seed position and seed weight, in the same lineage in open pollinated fruits. As predicted, pollen donors differ in…

EM increased as BRIX decreased and fruit size and firmness increased. Hence, we found that mycelium developed faster on softer, sweeter, and smaller fruit than firmer, less sweet, and larger fruit, as is typical of Royal Royce and other modern LSL cultivars . Finally, LD was weakly negatively genetically correlated with AC, whereas EM was uncorrelated…

Truncated sequence reads at the immediate borders of the putative deletion region were used to perform a BLAST search of the Hs sequence reads to identify untruncated readsequences. Identifed sequence reads from the two sides of the deletion region overlapped allowing us to assemble the Hs sequence in this region . This showed that the…

These studies focused on the influence of leaf morphology on fruit sugar level, and revealed important correlations between leaf shape and fruit sugar accumulation. However, how leaf shape contributes to sugar accumulation in fruit is not yet known . The impact of leaf traits such as leaf complexity and leaf veins on fruit sugar levels is currently…

Interestingly, KNOX functions as a bridge connecting a peripheral gene network module to the core network that includes leaf cell proliferation regulators. Because past evo-devo studies had demonstrated that KNOX expression was recruited repeatedly to influence leaf shape variation in several plant lineages, the bottle-neck position of KNOX in the GRN suggests it might be…

The key distinction between these two approaches was that the food class analyses included changes in food availability over time, whereas the selectivity analyses did not; selectivity analyses included only measures of the commonness of stems. Despite the notable differences in dietary richness, both primates exhibited similar responses to variation in fruit availability. When fruit…

Amino acids are organic compounds that among other functions have an important role in protein biosynthesis and secondary metabolite syntheses. In addition to their role as building blocks of proteins, amino acids function as precursors or intermediates in bio-synthetic pathways such as production of color molecules and volatiles in fruits, energy release through degradation, signaling…