Sweet cherry fruit cracking: follow-up testing methods and cultivar-metabolic screening

Abstract Background Rain-induced fruit cracking is a major physiological problem in most sweet cherry cultivars. For an in vivo cracking assay, the ‘Christensen method’ (cracking evaluation following fruit immersion in water) is commonly used; however, this test does not adequately simulate environm...

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Main Authors: Michail Michailidis, Evangelos Karagiannis, Georgia Tanou, Eirini Sarrou, Katerina Karamanoli, Athina Lazaridou, Stefan Martens, Athanassios Molassiotis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:Plant Methods
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13007-020-00593-6