fruitset

plural fruitsets · alternative fruit-set

1. countableuncountablebiologyA set of fruits from the same organism.
2. countableuncountableagricultureThe "setting" (beginning of growing) of fruit, resulting from successful pollination.

   Later, Schaible (49) also noticed that tomato fruit-set is generally poor when the night temperature exceeds 23 °C. Howlett (25) points out that both night and day temperatures are important factors limiting tomato fruit-set.

   1979, Robert Cowell, 1st International Symposium on Tropical Tomato

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   Most workers who have studied the use of auxin sprays on tomatoes have found that although forcing fruit-set on the first 3 or 4 clusters is beneficial, auxin applications to flowers on higher clusters have very little effect.

   2022 May 27, A. Carl Leopold, Auxins and Plant Growth, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 223

   There is a strong and positive correlation between fruit-set and gamete viability (Prasad et al., 2017). Gamete functions (pollen and ovule) is the most important factor for fruit-set under HS. In tomato, fruit-set has been shown to[…]

   2022 October 14, Masayoshi Shigyo, Mostafa Abdelwahed Abdelrahman, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Physiological and Molecular Perspectives of Stress Tolerance in Vegetables, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 170