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Table 1 Phenotypic characters of the cassava sexual tetraploid (ST) plants and their parent plants in the field

From: Character changes and Transcriptomic analysis of a cassava sexual Tetraploid

Parameter

Sexual Tetraploid (ST) Plants

SC10(♂) Plants

SC5(♀) Plants

Height (cm)

205.00 ± 9.57A

195.00 ± 8.66A

167.67 ± 16.62B

Stem diameter (cm)

4.51 ± 0.65A

2.65 ± 0.33B

3.13 ± 0.32A

Leaf area (cm2)

518.19 ± 23.57A

308.33 ± 35.66B

306.16 ± 59.37B

Leaf number

78.67 ± 10.26A

107.00 ± 25.24AB

129.30 ± 6.11B

Petiole length (cm)

36.33 ± 3.51A

21.83 ± 5.92B

18.50 ± 2.31B

Aboveground part weight (kg)

4.10 ± 1.22A

1.53 ± 0.31B

1.49 ± 0.07B

Underground part weight (kg)

4.08 ± 1.73A

2.33 ± 0.33B

2.69 ± 0.17B

Length of root (cm)

39.55 ± 21.18A

36.70 ± 12.16A

40.26 ± 15.16A

Diameter of root (cm)

3.97 ± 0.80A

3.05 ± 0.81B

3.42 ± 0.98A

Net photosynthetic rate (μmol·m2·s− 1)

11.87 ± 1.23A

6.05 ± 1.94B

8.51 ± 1.46B

Root dry matter rate (%)

28.51 ± 0.52A

28.44 ± 0.16A

32.56 ± 1.03A

  1. Note: Different capital letters represent significant difference at 0.05 level (Duncan, P = 0.05)