Table 4.
Effect of fruit position within the tree canopy on russeting of ‘Apple’ mango in different sites. Fruit positions were: top (>2 m above the ground), middle (1–2 m), and bottom (0.5–1 m). Russeting was quantified using a five-score rating scheme. Score 0: 0% of the fruit surface area russeted; score 1: 1–10% russeted area; score 2: 11–25% russeted area; score 3: 26–50% russeted area; and score 4: 51–100% russeted area.
| Site | Russeting (Rating Score) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | Middle | Bottom | Mean Fruit position | |
| Kaiti | 3.9 ± 0.0 a z | 3.7 ± 0.0 b | 3.5 ± 0.1 c | 3.7 ± 0.0 |
| Mumbuni | 3.1 ± 0.1 a | 2.3 ± 0.1 b | 1.9 ± 0.1 c | 2.4 ± 0.0 |
| Yeemulwa | 2.5 ± 0.1 a | 1.7 ± 0.1 b | 1.0 ± 0.1 c | 1.7 ± 0.0 |
| Mean Site | 3.0 ± 0.0 | 2.4 ± 0.0 | 1.9 ± 0.0 | |
z Significant interaction between site and fruit position in the canopy in a two factorial ANOVA. Therefore, ANOVA was run by site. Means within the rows followed by the same letter are not significantly different. Mean separation by Tukey studentised range test, p ≤ 0.05. The number of replicates was 352.