Relationship between alternate bearing and apical bud development in cranberry ( <i>Vaccinium macrocarpon</i> )
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Similar to other woody crops, cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) exhibits alternate bearing or a tendency to produce heavier yields one year, followed by lighter yields the next year. Unfortunately, despite the occurrence in many fruit crops, this trait is not well understood. The variable differentiation of floral initials in cranberry uprights is a distinguishing characteristic associated with alternate bearing. This study evaluates bud morphology and the presence of floral initials through characterization of longitudinal sections of apical buds from vegetative and fruiting uprights of alternate and non-alternate bearing genotypes. Our results reveal that differentiation of floral initials in fruiting uprights only occurs in non-alternate bearing genotypes and after initiation in vegetative uprights. In addition, a strong positive correlation was found between the increase of bud width and the presence of floral initials. Lastly, uprights from the alternate bearing genotype exhibited significantly faster growth rates of the reproductive buds compared with the vegetative buds. In summary, our study shows marked differences in timing and growth rates of floral initials between uprights of the two genotypes, suggesting a possible correlation with resource allocation during the growth season, and thus could contribute to cultivar selection and management practices.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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