Abstract
Cracking susceptibility evaluation of some stone fruit species (Sour cherries – Prunus cerasus L.; Sweet cherries – Prunus avium and European plums – Prunus domestica L.) grown in Hungary
Highlights
The rain induced fruit cracking is a big, serious problem especially for sour cherry growers but in some year sour cherry growers had problem with fruit cracking caused by too much rainfall in the harvest season
Fruit cracking tests of sour cherry cultivars under laboratory conditions: There were found differences in the cracking ratio and the cracking dynamics of the tested sour cherry varieties when they were immersed in distillated water for 24 hours
Our opinion is that there is no close relationship between the scale of fruit cracking and the quantity of absorbed water
Summary
The rain induced fruit cracking is a big, serious problem especially for sour cherry growers but in some year sour cherry growers had problem with fruit cracking caused by too much rainfall in the harvest season. Earlier in two papers (Simon et al, 2007; Simon, 2006) it was discussed in detailed the reasons and the physiological background of rain induced fruit cracking of sweet and sour cherries. The research work on cherry fruit cracking was supported as a part of a “GAK” project
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