The Development of Fruit Notes

 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRUIT

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Fruit is a mature, ripened ovary, along with the contents of the ovary. The ovary is the ovule-bearing reproductive structure in the plant flower. Under the botanical definition of fruit, many things that are commonly called vegetables are in fact fruits (for example, eggplant, green beans, okra and, yes, tomatoes

Initiation of fruit development is defined as the time of ovule fertilization and, in A. thaliana, marks the morphological transformation of the ovary to form a silique with two separate locules. 

Figure 1

Fruit development: developmental stages and tissue definitions. 

Left: A. thaliana fruit at different developmental stages, from fertilization to dehiscence. Right: schematic representation of tissue organization in the A. thaliana fruit and the genes controlling the identity of the different tissue domains.

• For further information about fruit development, you can click the link below

1. What is a fruit?
2. Fruit Development