Table 3.

Fruit production from greenhouse-grown plants inoculated with 20,000 nematode eggs. Red-ripe fruits were harvested twice a week for 10 weeks, and all remaining green fruits were harvested as fruit production was waning, at the end of the assay. Data on fruit number, average and total fruit weight was 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, but in the presence of nematodes, resistant (Mi-1.2+) plants produced significantly larger fruits than susceptible (Mi-1.2-) plants. There was no significant difference among treatments in the number, total weight, or average weight of green fruits collected from the plants at the termination of the experiment.