Table 1.
Occurrence of fruit skin stain on ‘Niitaka’ pear fruit as influenced by bag kinds at harvest in 2006

Bag kinds No. of fruit (ea) No. of infection fruit (ea) Occurrence of pear skin stain fruit (%)
Double bag (newspaper+yellow paper)1) 131 43 32.8c2)
Double bag (newspaper+blue paper) 162 80 49.4b
Double bag (newspaper+red paper) 161 137 85.1a
Survey date : after 30 days, Storage condition : Temp. 0°C, RH 80°C 89%.
Double bag (outer paper+inner paper).
Mean separation within columns by Duncan's multiple range test at p<0.05 level.