Table 6.
Person simple Correlations between berry weight, fruit bio-chemical characteristic and antioxidant activity in 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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit weight (g) | 0.541** | 0.591** | 0.264** | 0.412** | − 0.281** | 0.508** | |
| Antioxidant (%) | 0.752** | 0.473** | 0.681** | 0.066ns | 0.927** | ||
| Anthocyanin (mg/100 g) | 0.429** | 0.577** | − 0.124ns | 0.677** | |||
| TSS (°Brix) | 0.484** | 0.096ns | 0.342** | ||||
| Phenol (mg/100 g) | 0.096ns | 0.646** | |||||
| Titrateable acid (%) | 0.026ns | ||||||
| Ascorbic acid (mg/100 g) |
* and **Significant different at 5% and 1% probability levels respectively.