Figure 1

Fruit firmness for individual hybrids evaluated by penetrometry. A Comparison between sensory and instrumental measurements at 120 DAH. The hybrids are ordered in accordance with their sensory profiles (M16, M20, M49 as non-mealy and M48, M40 and M74 as mealy). Ffmoy, expressed in Newton, represents the mean force measured in the apple flesh (mean of forces measured at 7 and 9 mm of deformation). Boxplots present the median (the central mark), the region between the upper and lower quartiles (white area), the 95% confidence intervals around the median (the whiskers), the outliers are plotted individually. B Lost of flesh firmness from harvest to 120 DAH. The dash lines are associated with mealy hybrids and the bold ones with non-mealy.