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ISHS Acta Horticulturae 139: Fruit Set and Development, XXI IHC

FRUIT GROWTH EXPERIMENTS IN VITRO: UNKNOWN FACTOR IN REGULATION OF TOMATO FRUIT GROWTH

Authors:   A. Varga, J. Bruinsma
Abstract:
The versatile methods of organ culture in vitro enable a study into the requirements of fertilized tomato ovaries and their ovules to develop into fruits and seeds. They turn out to require (a) factor(s) from the mother plant, possibly from the leaves, which is essential for cell division in pericarp, placenta, and ovules, and which cannot be replaced by cytokinin, auxin and/or gibberellin.

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