Table 5.

Seed production of plants inoculated with 20,000 nematode eggs. Seeds were harvested from three representative fruits per plant. The lifetime seed production was estimated by multiplying the total number of grams of ripe fruit produced by the average number of seeds per gram for the tomatoes sampled. All parameters were analyzed by Two-Way ANOVA. Nematode infection reduced the number of seeds per fruit for both cultivars, but all other parameters were unaffected by nematode challenge or by genotype.