Claim · model-written summary
Early water deficit produced the greatest timing shift in endocarp area growth.
- Taxon
- Olea europaea L.
Olea europaeat0 - Treatment
- early water deficite0
- Outcome
- growth of endocarp areae0
- Direction
- greatest shifte0
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Verbatim
e0“The growth of endocarp area showed the greatest shift in timing in response to the early water deficit.”
t0“Olea europaea L.”
Title
The Effect of Water Deficit during Early Fruit Development on Olive Fruit Morphogenesis
Hava F. Rapoport; Giacomo Costagli; Riccardo Gucci Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 2004. doi:10.21273/jashs.129.1.121
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Water deficit decreased predawn leaf water potential to -3.1 MPa.
- Intervention effect Water deficit reduced fruit fresh weight at 8 and 22 weeks.
- Intervention effect Water deficit reduced volume at 8 and 22 weeks.
- Intervention effect Water deficit fruit transverse area was 50% of irrigated fruit at 6- week sampling.
- Intervention effect Water deficit fruit transverse area was 33% of irrigated fruit at 8- week sampling.
- Intervention effect Water deficit fruit transverse area was 70% of irrigated fruit at 22-week week sampling.
- Observation Mesocarp grew between 8 and 22 weeks in both irrigation treatments.
- Intervention effect Mesocarp transverse area differed significantly between treatments at 22 weeks.
- Intervention effect Endocarp area did not differ significantly between treatments at 22 weeks.
- Intervention effect Mesocarp cell size differed significantly between treatments at 8 and 22 weeks.
- Intervention effect Mesocarp cell number was similar under both treatments.
- Observation Most mesocarp cells were produced by 6 weeks after full bloom.
- Observation Irrigated fruit completed 90% of endocarp growth by 8 weeks.
- Intervention effect Deficit-irrigated fruit completed only 40% of endocarp growth by 8 weeks.