Figure 6

Fruit firmness and pericarp thickness of OE and WT fruits. (A) Fruit firmness of OE and WT fruits was evaluated at the indicated stage. Br, breaker; B3, 3 d after breaker; B5, 5 d after breaker; B7, 7 d after breaker; B15, 15 d after breaker. (B) Cross-sections of OE-8 and WT fruits at B15. OE fruits showed thinner pericarp (white line indicated) compared with WT fruits. (C) The statistics of pericarp thickness between OE and WT fruits in the breaker stage. Data are the means ± SD of at least 10 individual fruits. The asterisks indicate statistically significant differences between OE and WT fruits (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01).