berries, irrespective of the sugar (Fig. 2). Despite of
differences in berry growth rate and final fruit size,
both control and GA3 treated fruits reached similar
glucose, fructose and sucrose concentration. Moreover,
berry sugars concentration was similar for both ‘Emperatriz’
seedless and ‘Aledo’ seeded varieties, except for
sucrose, which had a lower concentration in ‘Emperatriz’
with respect to ‘Aledo’. Nevertheless, the very low concentration
of sucrose compared with glucose and fructose
concentration, makes the difference irrelevant.
In absolute value (mg berry–1), ‘Aledo’ seeded berry
had higher glucose and fructose content than ‘Emperatriz’
seedless berry because of its larger weight (Fig. 3).
Also here, sucrose content was lower for ‘Emperatriz’