fruitset

English

Etymology

From fruit +‎ set.

Noun

fruitset (countable and uncountable, plural fruitsets)

1. (biology) A set of fruits from the same organism.
2. (biology, horticulture) The "setting" (beginning of growing) of fruit, resulting from successful pollination.
   • 1979, Robert Cowell, 1st International Symposium on Tropical Tomato:

     Later, Schaible (49) also noticed that tomato fruit-set is generally poor when the night temperature exceeds 23 °C. Howlett (25) points out that both night and day temperatures are important factors limiting tomato fruit-set.

   • 2022 May 27, A. Carl Leopold, Auxins and Plant Growth, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 223:

     Most workers who have studied the use of auxin sprays on tomatoes have found that although forcing fruit-set on the first 3 or 4 clusters is beneficial, auxin applications to flowers on higher clusters have very little effect.

   • 2022 October 14, Masayoshi Shigyo, Mostafa Abdelwahed Abdelrahman, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Physiological and Molecular Perspectives of Stress Tolerance in Vegetables, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 170:

     There is a strong and positive correlation between fruit-set and gamete viability (Prasad et al., 2017). Gamete functions (pollen and ovule) is the most important factor for fruit-set under HS. In tomato, fruit-set has been shown to […]

Alternative forms

• fruit-set

Anagrams

• turfiest, turfites