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| Ky, Chin-long; Demmer, Jonathan; Blay, Carole; Lo, Cedrik. |
| Pinctada margaritifera is an economically important marine bivalve species for cultured pearl production in French Polynesian aquaculture. In order to evaluate the influence of donor oyster age on pearl quality traits, experiments were conducted over 6 years using both grafts and surgreffe operations. At harvest, 6 pearl quality traits were recorded and compared: surface defects, luster, grade, darkness level, and visual color. Analyzing the quality traits of pearls harvested in the initial graft process and those of pearls obtained from surgreffe experiments allowed a comparison of the influence of pearl sac cells originating from the initial mantle graft, which aged together with their recipient oysters. The results demonstrated a significant decrease... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster age; Pinctada margaritifera; Surgreffe; Pearl grade; Pearl colour. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00283/39472/37953.pdf |
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| Ky, Chin-long; Demmer, Jonathan; Sham-koua, Manaarii; Cabral, Philippe. |
| Production of larger, rounder, high-quality cultured pearls with fewer circles is one of the main challenges of Pinctada margaritifera aquaculture faced by every pearl farm in French Polynesia. Although bigger pearl sizes can be achieved through surgreffe operations (implantation of a second nucleus following pearl harvest), control of the development of pearl circles and shapes still remains unclear, as illustrated by grafter’s empirical rules, where often the surgreffe process is only performed after production of uncircled and round pearl shapes. The present study was designed with a real pearl by pearl traceability to reveal for the first time the development of circles and shapes from graft and surgreffe, in relation to the size of the pearl sac. This... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster; Pinctada margaritifera; Surgreffe; Circled pearls; Pearl shapes; Pearl sac. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00276/38690/37187.pdf |
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