Table 5.
Simple Pearson correlations between berry weight and fruit bio-chemical characteristic with longitude, latitude and altitude of original site of 57 blackberry genotypes assigned to four wild species (mean of 2014 and 2015).
| Fruit weight (g) | Antioxidant activity (%) | Anthocyanin (mg/100 g) | TSS (°Brix) | Total phenol (mg/100 g) | Titrateable acid (%) | Ascorbic acid (mg/100 g) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E (longitude) | − 0.012ns | 0.060ns | 0.108ns | − 0.027ns | − 0.042ns | − 0.028ns | 0.037ns |
| N (latitude) | − 0.287* | − 0.218ns | − 0.366** | − 0.387** | 0.164ns | 0.179 ns | − 0.118ns |
| Altitude (m) | 0.127ns | 0.036ns | 0.110ns | 0.287* | − 0.161ns | 0.020 ns | 0.010ns |
*and **: Significant different at 5% and 1% probability levels respectively.