Table 3.

The promotion of flowering time in plants with reduced levels of DNA methylation is proportional to the extent of demethylation

Plant line	Flowering time (SD)		% C24 vern response in unvern a/s	Methylation level, % C24
	Unvern	Vern
C24	86.6 ± 1.5	33.8 ± 0.9		100
T3 22-6.9	79.0 ± 1.9	37.7 ± 0.9	14.4	56.9 ± 0.8
T3 22-6.11	75.0 ± 2.5	34.8 ± 1.0	22.1	45.6 ± 3.2
T3 10.1	58.2 ± 2.5	28.0 ± 1.1	53.8	19.4 ± 4.2
T4 10.1.8	54.6 ± 1.9	27.8 ± 1.0	60.7	34.6*
T4 10.1.4	47.3 ± 2.4	26.3 ± 1.1	74.4	20.1 ± 1.8
T3 39.35	30.5 ± 1.0	19.7 ± 0.7	106.8	32.2 ± 1.7

Flowering time is in days ± SE. a/s, METI antisense. 

^*Average of two measurements. SD, short days.