Table I. Pollen-ovule interactions in reciprocal crosses of nontransgenic and GmAOX2b AS plants.

Hand pollination was carried out on line 3B10 AS and control plants as described in “Materials and Methods.” For each cross, flowers were randomly chosen from five nontransgenic and five AS plants.

Pollen Donor	Female Parent	No. of Hand-Pollinated Pistils	Total Ovules	Mature Ovulesa	Proportion of Mature Ovules Penetrated by a Pollen Tubeb
					% mature ovules per pistil
Nontransgenic	Nontransgenic	31	96	85	70 ± 5.5
Nontransgenic	AS	36	110	53	66 ± 7.8
AS	Nontransgenic	31	93	66	42 ± 6.8
AS	AS	29	85	50	49 ± 7.7

^aOvules containing mature-sized embryo sacs.

^bData are means ± se (n = no. of hand-pollinated pistils).