Table 2.

The effect of natural variation in raceme fruit number (large = 8–14, small = 2–5) for ‘Baldwin’ plants on l-AsA concentration and total l-AsA per fruit

	l-AsA concentration (mg g−1 f. wt)		Total l-AsA per fruit (mg fruit−1)
Fruit size (mm)	Large raceme	Small raceme	Large raceme	Small raceme
>11·2	3·3	4·5	3·6	4·4
8–11·2	3·8	4·1	1·9	2·1
5·6–8	3·4	4·9	0·9	1·3
<5·6	5·8	6·7	0·7	0·6
F. prob.
Raceme fruit number	**		**
Fruit size	***		***
Fruit number × size	n.s.		n.s.
s.e.d. (d.f. = 47)
Raceme fruit number	0·29		0·13
Fruit size	0·40		0·18
Fruit number × size	0·59		0·25

F. prob., F. probabilities: **, 0·01;***, 0·001; n.s., non-significant.

s.e.d., Standard error of differences between the means; d.f., residual degrees of freedom for comparison.