Treatment
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Developmental stage
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11
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Non-darkened (control)
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0
|
0.12 ± 0.01a2
|
0.61 ± 0.04a
|
1.14 ± 0.05a*3
|
1.38 ± 0.06a**
|
Exposed peduncle darkened
|
0
|
0.12 ± 0.01a
|
0.59 ± 0.03a
|
1.07 ± 0.04b
|
1.26 ± 0.06b
|
- 1Stages 1-5 correspond to the end of anthesis, the milk-development stage, the soft dough-development stage, the hard dough-development and the ripening stage, respectively.
- 2 Means followed by different letters within a column are significantly different by a Tukey test (P< 0.05).
- 3 * and ** indicate significance at the 0.05 and 0.01 probability levels, respectively.