Parameters of multiple linear regression equations explaining sweet cherry fruit cracking in a laboratory based immersion assay or as observed in eight years in the field following exposure to natural rain.

Cracking in the immersion assay was indexed by the cracking index or the time to half maximum cracking (T50). In the field the percentage of fruit that cracked or fruit that cracked in the stylar end region was recorded [33]. The same genotypes were used for laboratory and field assessments. Fruit for the laboratory assay was from grafted trees, the field observations were done on trees of the same genotpyes on their own roots.