Localized bursting of mesocarp cells triggers catastrophic fruit cracking
Abstract The so-called rain-cracking of sweet cherry fruit severely threatens commercial production. Simple observation tells us that cuticular microcracking (invisible) always precedes skin macrocracking (visible). The objective here was to investigate how a macrocrack develops. Incubating detached...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-06-01
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Series: | Horticulture Research |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41438-019-0161-3 |