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. 2013 Feb 7;5:plt007. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt007

Table 1.

Physiological and morphological responses of the two genotypes after 10 days of moisture stress. Physiological and morphological drought-stress-related traits, measured on three plants per replication for each treatment (stressed and control) after 10 days of water stress (just before leaf sample collection for qRT-PCR). All values shown are mean values at P ≤ 0.05. ns, not significant; **significant at P ≤ 0.05; SBG, significance between genotypes (columns); significance between treatments is shown in the rows.

Cultivar Conductance (mmol m−2 s−1)
Leaf retention (%)
Relative water content (%)
Number of leaves
Plant height (cm) ns
Control Stressed Control Stressed Control Stressed Control Stressed Control Stressed
MH96/0686 350.0 ± 37.21 168.9 ± 200** 76.88 ± 3.65 76.33 ± 2.33ns 97.3 ± 1.12 95.4 ± 2.92ns 26.78 ± 1.27 24.89 ± 1.50 ns 52.22 ± 2.86 52.11 ± 2.64 ns
Nyalanda 492.5 ± 43.0 355 ± 21.2** 63.33 ± 4.22 51.25 ± 2.48** 94.95 ± 1.37 81.3 ± 2.92ns 21.50 ± 1.56 13.37 ± 1.59** 48.67 ± 3.51 47.50 ± 2.80 ns
SBG ** ** ** ** ns ** ** ** ns ns