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Fig. 8 | BMC Plant Biology

Fig. 8

From: Higher growth of the apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) fruit cortex is supported by resource intensive metabolism during early development

Fig. 8

Spatiotemporal 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) periods

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