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Table 1 Panicle morphology of OR-1918 and Upahar grown in field and of OR-1918 grown in experimental pots and exposed to 50 μM BAP

From: Biochemical and molecular characterisation of exogenous cytokinin application on grain filling in rice

 

Panicle wt. (gm)

Panicle length (cm)

Spikelets (number)

Filled gain (%)

20 apical grain wt. (mg)

20 basal grain wt. (mg)

yield/plant (gm)

Plants grown in field

 OR-1918

5.3 ± 0.2

25.5 ± 1.5

396 ± 13.45

56.23 ± 2.2

430.3 ± 8.6

244.3 ± 21.0

46.9 ± 2.48

 Upahar

5.6 ± 0.76

27.06 ± 0.51

256 ± 10.0

91.60 ± 0.56

436.3 ± 5.5

412.6 ± 9.0

53.6 ± 1.97

 ‘t’ value at df = 4

0.73ns

0.47ns

9.2***

26.9***

1.01ns

12.7***

3.6*

OR-1918 grown in pots

 Control

5.38 ± 0.27

24.81 ± 0.98

403 ± 22

59.1 ± 2.8

423 ± 14

364 ± 21

47.9 ± 4.6

 BAP

6.14 ± 0.19

26.43 ± 0.92

479 ± 25

72.2 ± 2.3

454 ± 16

392 ± 13

69.3 ± 6.2

 ‘t’ value at df = 18

7.3***

3.82**

27***

5.4***

4.6***

3.5**

6.19***

  1. Data are mean ± SD. The ‘t’ values marked with ‘*’, ‘**’, or ‘***’ indicate that the difference between concerned two mean values is significant at p ≤ 0.05, p ≤ 0.01 or p ≤ 0.001 ***, respectively, while ‘ns’ indicates no significant difference