bear regularly ( Jonkers, 1979 ). Fruit from light-cropping trees can develop a higher incidence of the calcium-related storage disorder bitter pit ( Ferguson and Watkins, 1992 ). A successful chemical thinning program will normally result in adequate
, 1973 , 1975 ), “bitter pit” ( Eijsinga et al., 1973 ), and “pepper spot” ( Stolk and Maaswinkel, 1977 ) are different names that have been used in the literature to describe what is likely the same physiological disorder of peppers. This disorder
research on fruit cracking of pomegranate ( Bakeer, 2016 ), sunburn of apple ( Lötze et al., 2018 ), top rot in persimmon ( Tang et al., 2013 ), jujube fruit-shrink disease ( Zhang et al., 2019 ), and apple bitter pit ( Wallace and Jones, 2015 ). They found
, then stored at –80 °C. Four samples, in biological triplicate (a total of 12 observations—where each replicate was a pool of tissues from 10 fruits) represent peel and cortical tissues each from fruit with and without bitter pit lesions. RNA was
fruit trees. Wiley, New York, NY Ferguson, I.B. Watkins, C.B. 1992 Crop load affects mineral concentrations and incidence of bitter pit in ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ apple fruit J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 117 373 376 Hansen, P. 1973 The effect of cropping on
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heuristic was the most severe thinning treatment, as 88% of fruit were greater than 3.25 inches in diameter and 44% were greater than 3.5 inches in diameter ( Fig. 4 ). ‘Honeycrisp’ is susceptible to bitter pit and several other postharvest disorders, and
, diphenylamine, and pre-storage delay effects on soft scald, soggy breakdown and bitter pit of ‘Honeycrisp’ apples Postharvest Biol. Technol. 32 213 221