Table 4.

Fruit production of greenhouse-grown plants inoculated with 200,000 nematode eggs. Red-ripe fruits were harvested twice a week for 18 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). Nematode infection dramatically reduced mature fruit yield in the susceptible (Mi-1.2-) but not the resistant cultivar (Mi-1.2+). Nematode inoculation reduced the remaining green fruits at the end of the season in both genotypes, but the magnitude of this effect was greater in the susceptible cultivar.