Research Article

The Relationship between the Morphology and Structure and the Quality of Fruits of Two Pear Cultivars (Pyrus communis L.) during Their Development and Maturation

Figure 9

TEM: ultrastructure of the “Conference” fruit peel at the harvest maturity stage; (a) fragment of the fruit cuticle; (b) fragment of epidermis with cuticle and hypodermis; (c) epidermis cells with myelin figures and fibrous residue in the vacuoles; (d) epidermis and hypodermis cells; (e) stone cells in the hypodermis; Cp: cuticle proper, Cl: cuticular layer, A: amyloplasts with starch grains, M: mitochondrion, Mf: myelin figures, V: vacuoles, and Cw: cell walls.
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