. 2014 Jul 7;5:318. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00318

Table 7.

Mean values for gboma eggplant complex groups (S. macrocarpon and S. dasyphyllum) for the plant and fruit descriptors for which significant (P < 0.05) differences have been found among group means.

Descriptors^a	Gboma eggplant		Prob. F
	*S. macrocarpon*	*S. dasyphyllum*
n	11	1
Leaf Surface Shape	4.64^a	9.00^b	0.0061
Leaf Prickles	0.99^a	9.00^b	0.0004
Length of Largest Leaf Prickle (cm)	0.33^a	1.45^b	0.0442
Weight (g)^b	119.1^b	21.9^a	0.0026
Length (cm)^b	5.18^b	2.97^a	0.0068
Breadth (cm)^b	6.92^b	3.83^a	0.0075
Perimeter (cm)^b	21.0^b	11.9^a	0.0136
Area (cm²)^b	28.8^b	9.3^a	0.0140
Width Mid-height (cm)^b	6.80^b	3.79^a	0.0206
Maximum Width (cm)^b	6.85^b	3.81^a	0.0199
Maximum Width (cm)^b	5.14^b	3.03^a	0.0371
Obovoid	0.01^a	0.05^b	0.0093
Ovoid	0.16^b	0.08^a	0.0064
Width Widest Pos	0.44^a	0.49^b	0.0488

Means within rows separated by different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05, according to the Student-Newman-Keuls test.

In order to avoid scaling effects caused by accession means being proportional to standard deviations, ANOVAs were performed on log transformed data.