Necked strawberries are especially susceptible to cracking

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Plant Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Plant material

Macroscopic analysis

Cuticular mass

Microscopic analysis

Cracking induction

Terminology

Data analyses

Results

Discussion

Growth strain—the driver for cracking

Role of water uptake in cracking

A simple model to explain macrocracking of strawberry

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

Raw data for tables and figures.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15402/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Grecia Hurtado conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Moritz Knoche conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The data used to generate tables and figures are available in the Supplemental File.

Funding

This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KN 402/19-1). The publication of this article was funded by the Open Access fund of the Leibniz Universität Hannover. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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