"fructification" meaning in English

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          "text": "In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period.",
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          "ref": "2013, Martin Aluja, Fruit Flies: Biology and Management, page 384:",
          "text": "Lucuma salicifolia (canistal) and Micropholis mexicana (wild apricot) are the most infested fruit species. They have a very short fructification period.",
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          "ref": "2014, Victor R. Preedy, Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention, page 43:",
          "text": "Studying the duration of the flowering-fructification period among interspecific first-generation back-cross progenies of African species showed that this trait is positively correlated (r=0.78) with 100-seed weight and caffeine content.",
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        "(botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation."
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          "ref": "1824, Robert Kaye Greville, Flora Edinensis: Or, A Description of Plants Growing Near Edinburgh, page 332:",
          "text": "The fructification is liable to become very convex in age.",
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          "ref": "1836, William Paul Crillon Barton, Elements of Botany, page 89:",
          "text": "The essence of the fructification consists in the flower and the fruit.",
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          "ref": "2012, Sergei Meyen, Fundamentals of Palaeobotany, page 380:",
          "text": "Postheterotopic transformations played a great role in the evolution of fructifications. The formation of specialized seed-like sporophylls in the Lepidocarpaceae, of strobilar fructifications in the Noeggerathiales, of various capsules and other seed-bearing organs of many gymnosperms belong here.",
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