Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2020 Sep 30;9(10):1293. doi: 10.3390/plants9101293

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2020 by the authors.

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

Thickness of the cuticle above the anticlinal cell walls (ridge) as affected by the distance from a moisture induced microcrack. Microcracks were induced by 12 d of moisture exposure. Thickness was measured on cross-sections of the fruit skin prepared from fruit sampled on the day of termination of moisture exposure (0 d) (a) and 4 d (b) and 8 d (c) after moisture termination (during Phase II). The distance ‘0’ represents the center of the microcrack. Thickness was measured in both directions from the microcrack. The dashed line is the grand mean thickness of all cuticle ridges within the micrograph. The arrows indicate the mean width of the microcrack. Data represent means ± SE of 14 to 19 microcracks on a total of six fruits.