The cells that will become next year's fruit buds are beginning to form when you can see this year's fruitlets, which are baby apples just starting to form. |
Thinning of fruitlets by hand is often impossible due to labour cost and availability. |
The larvae are yellow-white in colour, up to 4mm long and found in cavities within distorted fruitlets. |
Pedicel CSA in fruitlets destined to abscind declined once symptoms of pending abscission became apparent. |
That the number of fruitlets formed is less than the number of pollen grains used in artificial pollination experiments might be due to inviability of some pollen grains. |
Recently, it has been shown that young Citrus fruitlets are able to synthesize ethylene in a manner that resembles the system II pathway of the climacteric fruits. |