Prolonging the marketing period of peach fruits in Egypt through introducing new cultivars, breaking dormancy early or delaying maturity of some cultivars by safe compounds would increase the growers' profits. This study was conducted during two successive seasons 2005 and 2006 by using "Desert Red" peach cultivar (Prunus persica L.) grafted on Nemaguard rootstock. Trees were grown at El-Noubar...

Bell peppers grown in greenhouses in the Mediterranean region are frequently subjected to high temperatures in summer and low temperatures in winter. The present experiment was designed to quantify the effect of season on pepper fruit growth, maturation and ripening. Three bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivars (Yolo Wonder, California Wonder and E84066) were cultivated in an unheated ...

Coffea arabica L. is an important crop in several developing countries. Despite its economic importance, minimal transcriptome data are available for fruit tissues, especially during fruit development where several compounds related to coffee quality are produced. To understand the molecular aspects related to coffee fruit and grain development, we report a large-scale transcriptome analysis of...

Plant hormone keeps a significant role to enlarge the fruit size and quality development. Fruit growers have a lot of interest in making fruit enlargement and shorten maturity to harvest fruit earlier and to make it marketable soon. Gibberellic Acid (GA3) and bark stress play a significant role in fruit enlargement and development. Bilimbi fruit was used in this experiment. The flower bud were ...

pomegranate is an important iranian-native fruit, with many varieties cultivated. although the volume of data on the importance of pomegranates in human nutrition has increased tremendously in the last years, the physical properties of the pomegranate fruit during fruit maturity have not yet been studied in detail. thus, the present study aimed to evaluate changes in physical characteristics of...

high-density planting system is one of the effective methods for improving production and profitability of tree orchards. in this research, the effects of four planting densities (1904, 2666, 3137 and 4800 tree/ha) on annual shoot growth, tree yield, physicochemical properties of fruit and leaf mineral contents of apple (malus domestica borkh cv ‘granny smith’treegrafted on m26 clonal rootstock...