Table 1.

Growth measurements taken at the end of the 2012 growing season from 4-year-old standard and pillar trees from a segregating population in the field at the USDA Appalachian Fruit Research Station

	Standard peach			Pillar peach			P -value
	Avg.	SD	SEM	Avg.	SD	SEM
Branch growth in 2012 (cm)	a82.9	30.5	4.31	a65.2	35.4	5.01	0.0086
Diameter of 2012 branches (mm)	7.76	2.67	0.38	6.78	2.87	0.41	0.081
Trunk height (m)	2.97	0.323	0.05	2.97	0.303	0.04	0.99
Trunk diameter (cm)	a17	2.51	0.35	a14.5	2.46	0.35	<0.001

For each genotype, branch measurements are from 50 branches from 10 trees and trunk measurements are from 50 trees

SD standard deviation, SEM standard error of the mean

^aStatistically a significant difference based on a P-value <0.05