Table 6. Effects of mechanical stress caused by hanging labels from the petioles (HLFP) of every white flower in the field on the number of bolls retention on different fruiting positions (FP) in four cotton genotypes.
| Genotype | Treat | 1st FP | 2nd FP | 3rd FP | >3rd FP |
| Bolls (No.) | |||||
| CCRI41 | Control | 8.9±1.3 a | 5.5±0.8 a | 2.6±0.4 a | 1.6±0.5 a |
| HLFP | 7.6±1.0 a | 3.8±0.9 a | 1.3±0.3 b | 0.1±0.2 b | |
| DP 99B | Control | 9.6±1.4 a | 6.6±1.4 a | 4.1±0.7 a | 3.5±0.8 a |
| HLFP | 7.5±1.1 a | 5.3±0.6 a | 2.8±0.8 b | 0.9±0.7 b | |
| BAI1 | Control | 8.6±0.9 a | 4.9±0.9 a | 2.9±0.8 a | 0.4±0.3 a |
| HLFP | 9.2±0.8 a | 5.1±1.3 a | 2.7±0.7 a | 0.4±0.4 a | |
| CCRC21 | Control | 6.1±0.8 a | 4.3±0.5 a | 1.6±0.7 a | 1.0±0.7 a |
| HLFP | 7.5±0.1 a | 5.1±0.8 a | 2.8±0.5 a | 0.9±0.4 a | |
For each genotype, values (mean±SD) in the same column that are followed by different lower case letters differ significantly at the p<0.05 level. n = 40 plants in all cases.