Carbohydrate and mineral nutrition of orange fruitlets in relation to growth and abscission
作者:
R. Ruíz,
J. L. Guardiola,
期刊:
Physiologia Plantarum
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 90,
issue 1
页码: 27-36
ISSN:0031-9317
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1399-3054.1994.tb02188.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Citrus sinensis;fruit growth and abscission;invertase activity;in vitro fruit explant culture;mineral nutrition;orange;starch;sugar metabolism
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Carbohydrate and mineral nutrition was studied in relation to abscission in fruitlets from leafy inflorescences of the Washington navel orange (Citrus sinensis[L.] Osbeck). Differences in the growth rate of the fruitlets permitted to predict abscission several weeks in advance. This allowed characterization of early differences in composition and behaviour of persisting and abscising fruitlets.Inflorescences with persisting fruitlets accumulated more mineral elements than inflorescences with abscising fruitlets, and for the phloem‐mobile elements the excess accumulation was allocated to the fruitlets. Starch accumulated in the inflorescence leaves during early fruitlet growth, and this accumulation was enhanced by the persisting fruitlets despite their higher growth rate and mobilizing ability. The relations between the fruitlets and the inflorescence leaves cannot be explained totally in terms of source sink relationships; a hormonal regulation of the leaves by the fruitlets is postulated.Acid invertase activities and hexose concentration in the pericarp were higher in the abscising fruitlets. The lower early growth rate of these fruitlets is thus not caused by a limitation in carbohydrate supply. It seems more related to carbohydrate utilization, probably hormonally mediated, as demonstrated by the higher dependence on hormone supply for the growth in vitro of the endocarp explant
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