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. 2004 Feb 2;101(6):1607–1612. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0305096101

Table 1. Absolute and relative mean differences in lifetime seed capsule production from pairs of developmentally synchronized plants from homozygous T3 independently transformed lines of a WT genotype of N. attenuata, which had been transformed with constructs containing a pi gene fragment in an antisense orientation (AS--, AS-), or an empty vector construct (C1, C2); untransformed plants of the Arizona (A) genotype and plants of the Arizona genotype transformed with constructs containing the full-length pi gene in a sense (S++) orientation.

Competitors Mean difference in capsule no. P % mean difference in capsule no. P
AS-- vs. C1 16.8 ± 2.9 0.0003 33.2 ± 4.3 0.0001
AS--* vs. C1* 20.8 ± 0.9 <0.0001 54.2 ± 1.8 <0.0001
AS1-- vs. C1* 38.4 ± 2.5 <0.0001 64.9 ± 4.5 <0.0001
AS- vs. C2 10.6 ± 1.8 0.0032 25.7 ± 3.0 0.0063
AS-* vs. C2* 14.0 ± 1.0 <0.0001 36.8 ± 2.8 <0.0001
AS- vs. C2* 19.0 ± 3.2 0.0005 43.3 ± 5.4 <0.0001
A vs. S++ 70.2 ± 10.7 0.0001 53.4 ± 5.3 <0.0001
A* vs. S++* 60.3 ± 3.8 <0.0001 60.7 ± 3.5 <0.0001
A vs. S++* 136 ± 5.5 <0.0001 75.5 ± 3.2 <0.0001

Two plants were grown in the same pot in three different pair combinations (AS-- vs C1, AS- vs C2, and A vs S++). Plants were either treated with 150 μg of MeJA in 20 μl of lanolin paste (*) to elicit JA-induced defenses or treated with 20 μl of pure lanolin paste as controls; n = 10 per treatment and pair combination. P values are from paired t test comparisons; relative values were arsine square root transformed before analysis.