Evidence for a radial strain gradient in apple fruit cuticles

Planta

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 891-897

  Khanal, Bishnu Prasad ^a   Knoche, Moritz ^a   Bußler, Sara ^b   Schlüter, Oliver ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Fracture; Microcrack; Rheology; Stress

Indexed keywords

WAX;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FRUIT; MALUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT EPIDERMIS; WAXES;

EID: 84907694895     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-014-2132-0     Document Type: Article

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