Inhibition of lateral shoot formation by RNA interference and chemically induced mutations to genes expressed in the axillary meristem of Nicotiana tabacum L.

Table 4 Lateral shoot production in field trials at an experimental site

Trial No	Line code	Primary lateral shoots		Secondary lateral shoots		Tertiary lateral shoots
Trial No	Line code	Number ± SD	Weight (g) ± SD	Number ± SD	Weight (g) ± SD	Number ± SD	Weight (g) ± SD
1	SAS-Ls-1	20.60 ± 1.65	36.79 ± 15.34	5.60 ± 1.78	9.99 ± 5.09	3.10 ± 0.99	4.27 ± 2.46
	SAS-ls-1	23.10 ± 1.37	18.42 ± 7.09	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a
	SAS-Ls-2	20.20 ± 2.30	37.44 ± 18.29	8.40 ± 2.55	22.33 ± 9.33	1.90 ± 1.10	3.71 ± 3.21
	SAS-ls-2	22.56 ± 1.33	32.03 ± 11.72	0.33 ± 0.71^a	0.50 ± 1.10^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a
2	SAS-Bl1-1	21.10 ± 1.22	57.38 ± NC	16.00 ± 3.61	64.98 ± NC	2.30 ± 1.75	17.67 ± NC
	SAS-bl1-1	18.80 ± 0.80	42.87 ± NC	1.46 ± 2.18^a	8.67 ± NC	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± NC
	SAS-Bl1-2	22.00 ± 1.71	155.01 ± NC	19.83 ± 2.86	56.13 ± NC	12.17 ± 5.86	57.02 ± NC
	SAS-bl1-2	23.60 ± 2.28	95.94 ± NC	8.36 ± 3.82^a	49.57 ± NC	1.43 ± 1.70^a	5.38 ± NC
3	SAS-REV	19.89 ± 0.60	85.11 ± 39.78	8.78 ± 2.91	35.63 ± 12.48	5.33 ± 2.96	17.10 ± 14.11
3	SAS-rev	19.80 ± 0.63	78.42 ± 29.98	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a

NC Not calculable
^aSignificantly different from the wild-type line(s) in the same trial at the 1% level as determined by the t-test

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