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.