ArticleJournal of experimental botany2017
Discharge of surplus phloem water may be required for normal grape ripening.
Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reverse Sap Flow from Fruit.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium.Annals of botany · 2025Review
- Canopy Architecture and Sun Exposure Influence Berry Cluster-Water Relations in the Grapevine Variety Muscat of Alexandria.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Influence of mixed and single infection of grapevine leafroll-associated viruses and viral load on berry quality.Tree physiology · 2024Article
- Berry shrivel in grapevine: a review considering multiple approaches.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Review
- Unraveling water relations in growing fruit: insights from the epidermal growth regulation hypothesis.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Impact of heat stress, water stress, and their combined effects on the metabolism and transcriptome of grape berries.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A novel selection model based on multivariate methods and arbitrary genetic parameters: a case study on tomato families.Plant methods · 2023Article
- Temperature affects organic acid, terpene and stilbene metabolisms in wine grapes during postharvest dehydration.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the Aquaporin Gene Family inCurrent issues in molecular biology · 2022Article
- Apoplastic sugar may be lost from grape berries and retrieved in pedicels.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- Expression Analyses in the Rachis Hint towards Major Cell Wall Modifications in Grape Clusters Showing Berry Shrivel Symptoms.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Abscisic acid plays a key role in the regulation of date palm fruit ripening.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Grain filling leads to backflow of surplus water from the maize grain to the cob and plantFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of vineyard techniques used to delay ripening.Horticulture research · 2022Article
- Transcripts switched off at the stop of phloem unloading highlight the energy efficiency of sugar import in the ripening V. vinifera fruit.Horticulture research · 2021Article
- Cuticle and skin cell walls have common and unique roles in grape berry splitting.Horticulture research · 2021Article
- Sucrose Metabolism and Transport in Grapevines, with Emphasis on Berries and Leaves, and Insights Gained from a Cross-Species Comparison.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Vascular Connections Into the Grape Berry: The Link of Structural Investment to Seededness.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- The physiology of drought stress in grapevine: towards an integrative definition of drought tolerance.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
At the onset of ripening, some fleshy fruits shift the dominant water import pathway from the xylem to the phloem, but the cause for the decline in xylem inflow remains obscure. This study found that xylem-mobile dye movement into grape berries decreased despite transient increases in berry growth and transpiration during early ripening, whereas outward dye movement continued unless the roots were pressurized. Modeling berry vascular flows using measurements of pedicel phloem sap sugar concentration, berry growth, solute accumulation, and transpiration showed that a fraction of phloem-derived water was used for berry growth and transpiration; the surplus was recirculated via the xylem. Changing phloem sap sugar concentration to a much higher published value led to model simulations predicting xylem inflow or backflow depending on the developmental stage and genotype. Mathematically preventing net xylem flow resulted in large variations in phloem sap sugar concentration in pedicels serving neighboring berries on the same fruit cluster. Moreover, restricting water discharge via the xylem and/or across the skin impaired berry solute accumulation and color change. Collectively, these results indicate that discharge of surplus phloem water via berry transpiration and/or xylem backflow may be necessary to facilitate normal grape ripening.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.