Experimental means were subjected to an analysis of vari-ance. Means were compared following Tukey’s test using generallinear models (GLM) procedure of SAS®software (SAS System,2002–2008, version 9.2, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). To compare means of values from treated tomatoes with those from control sets, a type I error rate P < 0.05 was used for all trials.