What is it about?
The average temperature during the period ranging from the floral bud emergence to the African plum fruit set can be used to predict the thermal time. Similarly, the average ambient temperature during the period from floral bud emergence to anthesis can help to determine the temperature to be cumulated during the ripening phase. These results will help farmers to determine accurately the best periods for fruit harvest and sale to enhance the safou marketability while knowing that predictions of plant phenology may also depend on water availability that was not considered in this study.
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Why is it important?
Dacryodes edulis (G. Don) H.J. Lam is an underexploited oil-bearing fruit tree highly appreciated in the Central Africa rainforest. To improve horticultural management and provide relevant data to scientists for physiological studies, the reproductive phenology of D. edulis as well as their fruit (safou) development and ripening indexes has been defined and correlated to climatic conditions.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. These findings are considerable contributions that could help producers to enhance the industrial management of safou sector, reduce fruit perishability, and better control their harvesting time.
Dr Carine TEMEGNE NONO
University of Yaounde I
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This page is a summary of: African plum (Dacryodes edulis [G. Don] H.J. Lam) fruit development indexes clearly defined and phenophases correlated with temperature in the tropics, Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology, January 2021, Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science,
DOI: 10.7324/jabb.2021.9107.
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