Fig. 7

Ranking of 47 populations for quantitative traits, measured as detailed in the Methods section. Left: average and SE of each population, right: average and SE of each variety. Letters depict statistically significant differences values (see Methods section). a – Early vigor. b – Number of days from sowing to the opening of the first female flower. c – Number of female flowers per plant in an 11 days window. d – Total Yield of marketable fruits picked during five experimental harvests. e Late-age vigor of plants, integrated from a series of visual-scale observations. Four horticultural varieties are marked by color as in Fig. 1