TABLE 4.

Comparison of means and variances for seed morphology between the C and A alleles at GS3 in O. rufipogon and O. sativa

	C allelea	A alleleb	F ratio	Pc
Seed length (mm)
O. rufipogon	8.49 ± 0.50	8.49 ± 0.65	0.41	0.52
O. sativa	7.94 ± 0.90	9.21 ± 0.75	9.86	<0.0001
Seed width (mm)
O. rufipogon	2.43 ± 0.27	2.36 ± 0.27	0.41	0.52
O. sativa	3.03 ± 0.39	2.82 ± 0.40	9.86	<0.0001
SL/SW ratio
O. rufipogon	3.53 ± 0.40	3.63 ± 0.39	0.39	0.53
O. sativa	2.67 ± 0.52	3.34 ± 0.57	53.96	<0.0001
Seed weight (g)d
O. rufipogon	15.72 ± 3.14	16.53 ± 3.62	0.43	0.5
O. sativa	22.52 ± 4.61	24.63 ± 4.98	6.93	0.01

^aC allele: O. rufipogon, N = 155; O. sativa, N = 106.

^bA allele: O. rufipogon, N = 7; O. sativa, N = 51.

^cP-values calculated using the F-statistics.

^dCalculated as seed weight/1000 seeds.