Crack initiation and propagation in sweet cherry skin: A simple chain reaction causes the crack to 'run'.

Rain cracking severely affects the commercial production of many fleshy-fruit species, including of sweet cherries. The objectives were to investigate how the gaping macroscopic cracks (macrocracks) of a rain-cracked fruit can develop from microscopic cracks in the cuticle (microcracks). Incubating...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christine Schumann, Andreas Winkler, Martin Brüggenwirth, Kevin Köpcke, Moritz Knoche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219794