Heterogeneity in pineapple fruit quality results from plant heterogeneity at flower induction.

ABSTRACT: Heterogeneity in fruit quality constitutes a major constraint in agri-food chains. In this paper the sources of the heterogeneity in pineapple in the field were studied in four experiments in commercial pineapple fields. The aims were to determine (a) whether differences in pineapple fruit quality among individual fruits are associated with differences in vigor of the individual plants within the crop at the time of artificial flower induction; and (b) whether the side shoots produced by the plant during the generative phase account for the fruit quality heterogeneity. Two pineapple cultivars were considered: cv. Sugarloaf and cv. Smooth Cayenne. Plant vigor at the time of artificial flower induction was measured by three variates: the number of functional leaves, the D-leaf length and the

SUBMITTER: Fassinou Hotegni VN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4260489 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature