Fig. 8From: Higher growth of the apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) fruit cortex is supported by resource intensive metabolism during early developmentSpatiotemporal patterns of starch concentration and transcript abundance of starch metabolism related genes in apple fruit tissues in response to fruit load reduction. Fruit load reduction was performed at 11 d after full bloom. Mean and S.D. are shown for starch concentration data. The mean and S.E. of the mean (n = 4) are displayed for transcript abundance. CC: Control fruit load-Cortex; CP: Control fruit load-Pith; RC: Reduced fruit load-Cortex; RP: Reduced fruit load-Pith. AGPase: ADP GLUCOSE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE; SBE: STARCH BRANCHING ENZYME; SS: STARCH SYNTHASE. Asterisk and dagger symbols indicate significant difference between control and reduced fruit load treatments in the cortex and pith, respectively (α = 0.05). All expression data are in reference to mean expression at 0 d after treatment in RC tissues. Transcript abundance of a gene was normalized to that of apple ACTIN and GAPDH (GLYCERALDEHYDE 3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE) genes. Shaded regions indicate early (dark grey), mid (light grey), and late fruit development (white) periodsBack to article page