Table II. Yield and starch content of potato tubers harvested from 10-week-old transgenic and wild-type plants.
Variable | Wild Type | FL31 | FL34 | FL60 |
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Tuber number | 8.2 ± 2.4 | 8.4 ± 1.5 | 6 ± 1 | 12 ± 4.2 |
Yield (g) | 230 ± 23 | 222 ± 54 | 207 ± 33 | 223 ± 56 |
Tuber weight (g) | 29.4 ± 6.1 | 27.52 ± 9.46 | 34.91 ± 5.96 | 20.87 ± 9.46 |
Starch (µmol Glc g−1 fresh weight) | 410.5 ± 53.1 | 416.7 ± 28.1 | 423.8 ± 38.2 | 422.8 ± 25.4 |