Exposure to trace amounts of sulfonylurea herbicide tribenuron-methyl causes male sterility in 17 species or subspecies of cruciferous plants

Table 1 ANOVA results for plant response variables: height, delay of flowering (DOF), duration of flowering (DUR), pollen viability (PV), self-pollinated seed-set (SSS), and manually pollinated seed-set (MPSS)

Traits		Height		DOF		DUR		PV		SSS		MPSS
	df	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p
Replication	2	0.75	0.4743	0.06	0.9425	0.32	0.7246	0.11	0.8893	0.53	0.5906	0.01	0.9858
Dose	2	76.48	0.0001	164.24	0.0001	14.34	0.0001	4832.65	0.0001	13.04	0.0001	114.48	0.0001
Cultivar	22	305.13	0.0001	3.61	0.0001	28.16	0.0001	1.85	0.0410	1.01	0.4704	66.96	0.0001
Dose ×cultivar	44	2.61	0.0001	3.88	0.0001	20.81	0.0001	3.36	0.0001	144.94	0.0001	6.57	0.0001
Treatments		Average		Average		Average		Average		Average		Average
Dose 0.0 mg/L		104.87	A	0.35	A	19.24	A	95.42	A	5.54	A	13.14	A
Dose 0.2 mg/L		101.32	B	1.30	B	18.62	B	5.91	B	0.13	B	11.91	B
Dose 0.4 mg/L		91.57	C	2.76	C	17.06	C	0.96	C	0.00	B	7.84	C

Values in bold indicate significance at P < 0.05. The differences among the average values of the 6 attributes for each treatment were tested by Duncan’s multiple range test and were indicated with letters A, B, and C

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