As climacteric fruits, fleshy Prunus has a short ripening period and short shelf-life after harvest. Therefore, the main problem with these fruits is its physiological parameters related to the maintenance of firmness. In this work, the effects of combined foliar sprays (Ca+B and Ca+Si) on the...

The South American soursop, guanabana or graviola fruit, was unknown to Europeans until the voyages of Christopher Columbus. The tree is now grown commercially and in home gardens throughout the tropics. The fruit is consumed as a fresh fruit and juice, and the frozen pulp is used in the...

In Russia's North Caucasus where drought is frequent the apple tree is one of the most important garden crops. Physiological and biochemical studies are necessary to assess adaptiveness of apple varieties to stressors during summer, in particular, to summer drought. The purpose of this work is to...

Premise: The mahogany family (Meliaceae) is an angiosperm lineage comprising many species that are important elements in tropical ecosystems, and is often used as a study system to understand the evolution of tropical rainforests. While divergence time studies have estimated a Cretaceous origin for ...

Water is a limiting factor for plant development. Therefore, understanding plant-water relations is vital for food security and ecosystem conservation. The stable isotopes of water (δ²H and δ¹⁸O) are widely used to study ecohydrological processes, such as root water uptake. However, obtaining water ...

This review of Neotropical Burseraceae emphasizes developments since the last major review of the family in 2011. The Burseraceae comprise a Laurasian group (represented by Eocene fossils in the Northern Hemisphere) that originally dispersed through Central America into Amazonia. During cooling and ...

Objective: To understand the relationship between water and carbon metabolism and growth and fruiting of branches at different positions in the crown of Hippophae rhamnoides for providing a certain theoretical basis for the formulation of cultivation technical measures for Hippophae rhamnoides tree ...

Climate change might impact tree fecundity by altering the relative influences of meteorological and physiological drivers, and by modifying resource investment in reproduction. Using a 13-yr monitoring of Quercus ilex reproduction in a rainfall exclusion experiment, we analysed the interactive...

Objective: The anther structure and microspore development of Manglietia conifera were studied to determine the abnormal phenomenon of male microspore development, and to provide evidence and accumulation data for further study on the taxonomic status of M. conifera and the phylogeny of...

The overall coordination between gas exchanges and plant hydraulics may be affected by soil water availability and source-to-sink relationships. Here we evaluated how branch growth and mortality, leaf gas exchange and metabolism are affected in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) trees by drought and...