Fruit transpiration drives interspecific variability in fruit growth strategies.

ABSTRACT: Fruit growth is a complex mechanism resulting from biochemical and biophysical events leading water and dry matter to accumulate in the fruit tissues. Understanding how fruits choose their growth strategies can help growers optimizing their resource management for a more sustainable production and a higher fruit quality. This paper compares the growth strategies adopted by different fruit crops, at different times during the season and relates their fruit surface conductance to key physiological parameters for fruit growth such as phloem and xylem inflows as well transpiration losses. Our results show how fruits capacity to transpire (determined by their surface conductance) is a key driver in determining the growth strategy adopted by a species and explains the inter-species variability e

SUBMITTER: Rossi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987619 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature