"Crumbly Fruit"

Do you know what this condition is called?

Did you know that this causes yield losses?

This condition is called "CRUMBLY FRUIT" because when picked the fruit crumbles; such fruit has no commercial value.

It can occur at two different levels recently named:

Crumbly Fruit Condition (CFC): all fruits are misshapen and the plants display the symptoms year after year; all propagated progenies show these symptoms (genetically determined)

Malformed Fruit Disorder (MFD) which can be regarded as a softer form of CFC where uneven fruits are displayed mainly at the beginning of the fruiting season and only on the top laterals. Alternatively plants exhibit malformed fruits on all or most of the laterals throughout the fruiting season however the symptoms are not expressed every year (environmentally determined).

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