Fig. 1.

Illustration of rice plant organs used for hormone and transcriptome analyses. 1, flowers before anthesis; 2, panicle branches; 3, top part of internode I; 4, basal part of internode I; 5, node I; 6, node II; 7, tip of the blade of the flag leaf; 8, middle part of the blade of the flag leaf; 9, basal part of the blade of the flag leaf; 10, top part of the sheath of the flag leaf; 11, basal part of the sheath of the flag leaf; 12, whole blade of the flag leaf; 13, whole blade of leaf 2 counted down from the flag leaf; 14, whole blade of leaf 4 counted down from the flag leaf. The numbers correspond to the numbers in Table 2.