TABLE 3.

Relative difference in fruits (Diameter, height, fresh weight, dry weight and water content) of tomato plants Solanum lycopersicum (cv. Plovdiv) cultivated in the presence of water (CT: control treatment) or under water restriction conditions (ST: stressed treatment) during the cell division period, the cell expansion period, and the fruit maturation period, respectively

	Phase of cell division	Cell expansion phase	Maturation phase
Diameter (mm)
CT	6.17 ± 0.91a	31.73 ± 4.21a	37.82 ± 1.55a
ST	4.76 ± 1.07b	28.73 ± 3.71a	34.82 ± 1.13b
Height (mm)
CT	7.12 ± 1.12a	32.4 ± 3.38a	38.36 ± 3.44a
ST	5.78 ± 1.01b	31.76 ± 2.63a	35.34 ± 2.09b
Fresh weight (g)
CT	0.17 ± 0.07a	19.99 ± 6.77a	31.6 ± 3.71a
ST	0.09 ± 0.04b	15.65 ± 4.90b	25.88 ± 3.39b
Dry weight (g)
CT	0.02 ± 0.01a	1.52 ± 0.53a	2.59 ± 0.37a
ST	0.01 ± 0.005b	1.47 ± 0.54a	2.49 ± 0.21a
Water content
CT	8.36 ± 0.54a	21.56 ± 6.63a	13.78 ± 1.83a
ST	4.43 ± 0.81b	9.83 ± 1.20b	9.39 ± 1.21b

Bar indicates standard error (p = .05). Same letter above the bars denotes that the difference between means were not significant.