ReviewJournal of experimental botany2023
Just enough fruit: understanding feedback mechanisms during sexual reproductive development.
Review in Journal of experimental botany, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Immature fruit abscission is triggered by hormonal changes in the seed coat of avocado.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Heavy fruit load inhibits axillary bud outgrowth initially through weakening its sink strength and auxin efflux in citrus.Plant molecular biology · 2026Article
- Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses reveal melatonin-mediated drought response in red raspberry at the squaring stage.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Manifold limits on seed production by individual flowering plants.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Linking pod-set and seed yield of faba bean across organ, phytomer, plant, and population scales.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
- The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Characterizing the plant functional traits of coffee agroecosystems in Indonesia.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Flowering Newsletter 2023.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Article
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Abstract
The fruit and seed produced by a small number of crop plants provide the majority of food eaten across the world. Given the growing global population, there is a pressing need to increase yields of these crops without using more land or more chemical inputs. Many of these crops display prominent 'fruit-flowering feedbacks', in which fruit produced early in sexual reproductive development can inhibit the production of further fruit by a range of mechanisms. Understanding and overcoming these feedbacks thus presents a plausible route to increasing crop yields 'for free'. In this review, we define three key types of fruit-flowering feedback, and examine how frequent they are and their effects on reproduction in a wide range of both wild and cultivated species. We then assess how these phenomenologically distinct phenomena might arise from conserved phytohormonal signalling events, particularly the export of auxin from growing organs. Finally, we offer some thoughts on the evolutionary basis for these self-limiting sexual reproductive patterns, and whether they are also present in the cereal crops that fundamentally underpin global diets.
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