Table 6.

Seed production of plants inoculated with 200,000 nematode eggs. Seeds were harvested from a cross-sample of fruits^§, and the estimated 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. 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 reduced the number of seeds per fruit and the estimated lifetime seed production of susceptible (Mi-1.2-) but not resistant (Mi-1.2+) plants.