Table 2. General ANOVA for the content of ascorbic acid (AAC) and total phenolics (TP) and specific ANOVA corresponding to each ripening stage for AAC, TP, total red carotenoids (TCR), and total yellow/orange carotenoids (TCY/O).
| Effect | AAC | TP | TCR | TCY/O | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dfa | MSb | df | MS | df | MS | df | MS | |
| General ANOVA | ||||||||
| Main effect | ||||||||
| Genotype (G) | 36 | 15921*** | 36 | 73148*** | -c | - | ||
| Growing system (S) | 1 | 11118*** | 1 | 2864NS | - | - | ||
| Ripening stage (R) | 1 | 1570610*** | 1 | 844879*** | - | - | ||
| Interactions | ||||||||
| G x S | 36 | 4312*** | 36 | 10445*** | - | - | ||
| G x R | 36 | 7932*** | 36 | 28606*** | - | - | ||
| S x R | 1 | 21654*** | 1 | 179547*** | - | - | ||
| Error | 467 | 2544 | - | - | ||||
| Unripe stage ANOVA | ||||||||
| Main effect | ||||||||
| Genotype (G) | 36 | 6775*** | 36 | 63183*** | - | - | ||
| Growing system (S) | 1 | 410NS | 1 | 55864*** | - | - | ||
| Interactions | ||||||||
| G x S | 36 | 3501*** | 36 | 8394*** | - | - | ||
| Error | 283 | 882 | - | - | ||||
| Fully ripe stage ANOVA | ||||||||
| Main effect | ||||||||
| Genotype (G) | 36 | 15836*** | 36 | 37459*** | 36 | 74573*** | 36 | 25853*** |
| Growing system (S) | 1 | 24720*** | 1 | 102713*** | 1 | 4369NS | 1 | 43NS |
| Interactions | ||||||||
| G x S | 36 | 2484*** | 36 | 12353*** | 36 | 2945NS | 36 | 318NS |
| Error | 601 | 4097 | 2942 | 963 | ||||
adegrees of freedom
bmean square
cCarotenoids were evaluated only at fully ripe stage.
NS, *, ** and *** indicate not significant for a probability p >0.05 and significant for p <0.05, 0.01 and 0.001, respectively, according to the statistical F ratio.