Table II. Morphometric analysis of the venation pattern of ron1-1.
All values are means ± sd. Values significantly different from those of Ler (P ≤ 0.05) are indicated in italics.
| Organ | Line | Area | Venation Length | Venation Density | No. of Branching Points | No. of Branching Points per mm2 | No. of Free-Ending Veins | No. of Free-Ending Veins per Venation Length (mm) | n |
| mm2 | mm | mm mm−2 | |||||||
| Cotyledon | Ler | 10.20 ± 2.61 | 16.17 ± 2.43 | 1.63 ± 0.21 | 6.56 ± 0.73 | 0.68 ± 0.19 | 1.11 ± 1.05 | 0.07 ± 0.06 | 9 |
| ron1-1 | 11.23 ± 3.41 | 16.56 ± 3.96 | 1.51 ± 0.21 | 7.50 ± 2.39 | 0.70 ± 0.29 | 2.13 ± 0.99 | 0.13 ± 0.07 | 8 | |
| First leaf | Ler | 27.03 ± 8.18 | 84.82 ± 23.46 | 3.16 ± 0.15 | 122.56 ± 39.95 | 4.60 ± 0.62 | 48.22 ± 14.54 | 0.58 ± 0.13 | 9 |
| ron1-1 | 27.08 ± 5.36 | 67.50 ± 18.19 | 2.47 ± 0.29 | 96.22 ± 32.28 | 3.49 ± 0.76 | 58.44 ± 19.57 | 0.85 ± 0.11 | 9 | |
| Third leaf | Ler | 34.07 ± 8.31 | 144.74 ± 32.69 | 4.28 ± 0.34 | 270.71 ± 62.04 | 8.04 ± 1.24 | 79.00 ± 16.27 | 0.55 ± 0.09 | 7 |
| ron1-1 | 31.95 ± 8.18 | 124.17 ± 19.12 | 4.05 ± 0.86 | 240.78 ± 49.28 | 8.11 ± 2.91 | 92.22 ± 13.13 | 0.75 ± 0.13 | 9 |