Journal
ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY
Volume 169, Issue 3, Pages 357-368Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/aab.12306
Keywords
Aril; fruit drop; fruit set; longan; pollen tube growth; progamic phase
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad-European Regional Development Fund
- European Union [AGL2013-43732-R, AGL2012-40239, Recupera2020]
- Gobierno de Aragon A-43
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain
- Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)
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In most fleshy fruits, the edible part of the fruit is formed either by the pericarp derived from the ovary wall or by an engrossed receptacle. However, in a number of fruit tree species the edible part is the aril, an outgrowth of the ovule that envelops the seed, and there is a paucity of information on fruit development and fruiting pattern in these crops. To fill this gap, in this work, we have characterised the progamic phase, fruit development and fruit/fruitlet drop in longan, Dimocarpus longan. The progamic phase from pollination to fertilisation took just 3days; the pollen tubes arrived to the base of the style in 1day, reached the locule 1day later and penetrated the ovules 3days after pollination. Only one of the two ovules present in each longan flower fertilised. However, this did not result in rapid fruitlet growth, since a very slow fruit development occurred up to 6weeks after flowering. Pollination was required for fruiting and unpollinated flowers dropped 9days after anthesis. Only 7% of the female flowers produced became fruits. There was a first flower/fruitlet drop 2-4weeks after flowering that appeared to be related to lack of fertilisation followed by a second fruitlet drop 5-6weeks after flowering, concomitantly with the rapid growth of the embryo and the aril, that appears to be related to competition for nutrients. These results set a frameline to understand fruiting in tree species in which the edible part of the fruit is a fleshy aril.
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