2.4. Statistical analysis
In order to improve the homogeneity of variances (Levene’s test)
the data of percentages of wounds infected by fungi were arcsinesquare-root
transformed. Data (% of disease incidence) were
submitted to one-way univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA, SPSS
release 17.0 for Windows; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). The threshold for
statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. In the
case of statistical significance, Tukey test was applied to separate the means