Table 2. Nitrogen, carbohydrate contents, photosynthesis characteristics of leaves and final fruit mass of girdled
fruiting branches with 10 and 100 leaves per fruit (high- and low-fruit load, respectively): gap fractions (GF), concentration
of nitrogen per dry mass unit (Nm), leaf mass-to-area ratio (Ma), amount of nitrogen per unit leaf area (Na), and total nonstructural
carbohydrates (TNCa) per unit leaf area, net photosynthetic assimilation (Anet), leaf diffusive conductance to
water vapour (gs). Means are presented + SE. For each line, values with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05)
[adapted from Léchaudel and Joas (2006) and Urban et al. (2004)].