Tag: hydroponic
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We validated these results with field-grown tomatoes across four field seasons
To determine the impact of Cnr, nor, and rin mutations on the key fruit traits, we measured external color, firmness, total soluble solids , and titratable acidity at multiple ripening stages. Fruit from the isogenic mutants Cnr, nor, and rin, were harvested alongside WT from an experimental field at selected ripening stages, mature green , turning…
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A superior genotype in one environment may not be superior in a different environment
RSV, originating from the volcanic slopes of Vesuvius in the same region, produces small sweet pear-shaped fruits that are suitable for long term storage thanks to their texture. The ability to dissect genomic and metabolic responses to environmental cues is key to understanding the molecular basis of plasticity of fruit quality traits. In spite of the…
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It is important to point out that the types of media determined the pathogen counts
This indicated that after exposing to the drying stress during sand inoculum preparation, this pre-storage stress response enhanced the survivability of Salmonella during storage. This also indicated the impact of inoculation carriers on the survival of pathogens. The differences observed between selective and non-selective agar indicate the formation of stressed or injured cells during storage.…
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The most commonly-reported drying method was using a dryer or dehydrator
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,…
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The nutritional and pharmacological attributes of pistachio contribute to its growing popularity
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…
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Hand grab samples were collected and weighed from 20% of the plots at each harvest
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…
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Different isoforms of ACC synthase and ACC oxidase were up- or down-regulated
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…
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Raphanus species have non-fleshy pod-like fruits that dry out attached to the plant
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…
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Primers were designed that would amplify the region spanning the deletion in mutant plant DNA
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…
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Our results show that changes in leaves can cause variation in fruit BRIX
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…