Researchers of Valencia’s Polytechnic University and international collaborators have established the epigenetic mechanism through which citrus fruit inhibits the flowering of citric fruit trees. This discovery is essential to understand alternate bearing, a phenomenon that affects a large number of the most prized citric fruit varieties and which globally accounts for annual losses of around €20 billion. This finding opens a new path to solve this issue and limit the losses that it creates in the sector. Their work has been published in the journal New Phytologist.
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Source: Phys.org