Tag: agriculture

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…

All fruit fly specimens caught in traps and those that emerged from fruits were identified using fruit fly identification keys. Voucher specimens were deposited in the IITA-Cameroon insect collection with duplicates at the IITA Biodiversity Center in Benin. The total number of fruit fly specimens from traps and for each of the two genera, Bactrocera…

They are characterized by a relatively stable multiannual yield, and usually possess efficient mechanism to control excess fruit production. A second strategy is also used by trees that bear a heavy fruit load in one year, which inhibits return bloom and vegetative growth the next year . Thus, the second year is characterized by low yield and…

In general, ABA suppresses plant resistance mechanisms by antagonizing SA- and JA/ET-dependent immune responses , thereby promoting susceptibility . In addition, negative regulation involving systemic acquired resistance activation and ABA synthesis has been documented . Genome-wide transcriptional profiling studies have been valuable in the study of hormonal signaling during plant–pathogen interactions because they enable researchers to…

One unresolved question is whether communities harbouring different diversity levels might respond differently. In other words, does biodiversity have a modulating role in these responses to changing species composition? We need to remove the same species from different background communities to see how responses differ across a diversity gradient. Given the complexity of these experiments,…