Patient self-evaluation was based on a composite questionnaire that included questions on symmetry between the two breasts on different items, including firmness of the breast, nipple position, breast contour, breast volume, appearance of the scar, final overall result, and patient satisfaction with the appearance of the breast.
These maturity and physiological parameters include firmness, percentage of total soluble solids, respiration rate and ethylene production [ 3]. 5' end sequencing of clones from these libraries resulted in a total of 50,625 EST sequences.
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The regulation of cell wall related genes strictly relates phenotypic features, including fruit firmness, and shelf life.
Moreover, transgenic tomato fruits overexpressing SlCOBRA-like exhibited desirable early development phenotypes including enhanced firmness and a prolonged shelf life.
The high number of QTLs (190) that were identified for the genetic control of aspects of fruit quality, including fruit firmness at and after harvest, DM content and harvest date in the 'Royal Gala' × 'Braeburn' segregating population, demonstrates the complexity of control of these attributes in apple fruit.
Guillon and co-workers reported that suppression of the tomato DR12 gene (an auxin response factor) caused unusual pericarp cell division and a higher proportion of sub-epidermal collenchymatous cells, resulting in pleiotropic phenotypes including enhanced fruit firmness similar to what we report here for SlCOBRA-like overexpression [ 48].
Fruit characteristics were determined by measuring parameters including acidity, sugar (Brix), firmness, weight and color.
To establish ties between gene expression pattern and fruit physiology, we analyzed a number of ripening parameters in the same fruit used for expression profiling including measurement of fruit firmness.
Phenotyping for traits including fruit maturation timing, firmness and dry matter content was performed at each of these three sites for a single growing season (2011), and at two sites (Motueka and Hawke's Bay) for two seasons (2009 and 2010).
Several physical characteristics of milk that are of importance in cheese manufacture have been described in the literature, including rennet coagulation time, curd firmness 30 min after rennet addition, and curd-firming time (Bittante et al., 2012).
