Structure and development of fruit and seeds in Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia chinensisPlanch.)
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Botany
- Vol. 14 (1), 63-68
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.1976.10428651
Abstract
The development of fruit and seed tissues in Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia chinensis Planch. cv. ‘Monty’) was examined at intervals after flowering. Cell division in all fruit tissues commenced immediately after flowering and persisted in the outer pericarp, inner pericarp, and central core for 23, 33 and 111 days, respectively. The fruit growth curve was double sigmoid owing to an initial period of cell enlargement in all tissues (Stage I, 0–58 day!) followed by a period of retarded enlargement (Stage II, 58–76 days) and a further period of enlargement in the inner pericarp (Stage III, 76–160 days after flowering). The structure of the seed was unusual in that the nucellus possessed a well defined hypostase, and the endosperm and embryo were surrounded by an endothelium. Only one, uniseriate, integument was present which subsequently developed into a thickened tests. The cellular nucellus and endosperm developed concomitantly until the end of Stage II and were absorbed, in part, during Stages II and III by the developing embryo.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Chinese gooseberry: Seasonal patterns in fruit growth and maturation, ripening, respiration and the role of ethyleneJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 1974
- Growth Substances in Fruit Setting and DevelopmentAnnual Review of Plant Physiology, 1964
- Relationship of Growth and Development to Changes in Sugars, Auxins, and Gibberellins in Fruit of Seeded and Seedless Varieties of Vitis ViniferaPlant Physiology, 1960
- A taxonomic review of the genus ActinidiaJournal of the Arnold Arboretum, 1952
- Recherches anatomiques sur la séminogenèse de l'Actinidia chinensisPlanch. Affinités des ActinidiacéesBulletin de la Société Botanique de France, 1944