Figure 6

Fruitlet abscission in shaded and non-shaded trees of litchi cv. ‘Nuomici’ (2009). The orange line is non-shading control, and the grey line is shading treatment (shaded to 18% of full sun with a neutral density black-polypropylene shade cloth). Shading treatment lasted 7 days since 30 days after anthesis. Bars indicate SE for the mean value of the cumulative fruitlet abscission percentage of three biological replicates. Significances at 5% level are indicated with stars (‘*’) according to t-test.