ABA Application during Flowering and Fruit Set Reduces Berry Number and Improves Cluster Uniformity

Post-harvest conservation of Rubi grapes treated with abscisic acid

“…The lowest angular coefficients (0.07) were found in the 400 mg L -1 treatments in the BM and 400 mg L -1 in the BM + 200 mg L -1 at 25 DAFA ( Figures 4B and C), showing that these treatments presented about 0.07% of shatter every day in storage. This is explained by the fact that these treatments had delayed rachis tissues senescence, increasing their resistance to shatter during storage (Kuhn et al, 2014;Padmalatha et al, 2017). It is also important to mention that a hormonal balance controls the senescence process, so, it is possible that the S-ABA regulated this balance, decreasing the shatter (Raban et al, 2013;Ferrara et al, 2016).…”

Genetic variation and association analyses identify genes linked to fruit set-related traits in grapevine

“…Grapevine fruit set and reproductive disorders have been widely analysed from a physiological point of view [18][19][20][21], and different viticulture strategies have been proposed for fruit set optimization in the vineyard [15,16,[22][23][24]. Nevertheless, and despite their interest for long-term vineyard management strategies and for the breeding of new cultivars, little is known about the genetic basis of these traits.…”