Table 1.

Fruit production from field-grown plants inoculated with 8,000 nematode eggs. Red-ripe fruits were harvested twice a week for 11 weeks, and then, as fruit production was waning, all remaining green fruits were collected at the end of the assay. Data on total mature and immature fruit weights were analyzed by Two-way ANOVA. Where there was a significant interaction between treatment and genotype, mean separations were also performed using Student’s t tests (values followed by the same letter are not significantly different from each other at α=0.05) Neither nematode inoculation nor plant genotype had a significant effect on the number or total weight of mature fruits collected, although, in the presence of nematodes, the yield of immature fruits at the end of the season was higher for resistant plants than susceptible plants.