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. 2013 Apr 3;8(4):e60801. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060801

Table 1. Shoot biomass, P concentration and P accumulation of transgenic lines and WT grown in quartz sand.

P treatment Line Dry weight P concentration P accumulation
g plant–1 % mg plant–1
HP WT 1.03±0.07 0.42±0.04 4.30±0.21
P3 1.32±0.16* 0.47±0.04 6.07±0.81**
P11 1.58±0.21** 0.49±0.05 7.22±0.88**
a18 1.39±0.23* 0.57±0.03* 7.35±1.23**
LP WT 0.09±0.01 0.14±0.01 0.12±0.01
P3 0.13±0.01* 0.24±0.01* 0.32±0.03**
P11 0.13±0.02* 0.17±0.02 0.18±0.01*
a18 0.10±0.02 0.16±0.00 0.18±0.01*
Phy-P WT 0.68±0.04 0.31±0.04 2.09±0.43
P3 0.78±0.08* 0.43±0.04* 3.57±0.34**
P11 0.93±0.05** 0.31±0.03 2.86±0.34*
a18 0.93±0.08** 0.27±0.01 2.50±0.21*

Values represent means ± SD of four replicates. A significant difference (*, ** at P<0.05 and P<0.01, respectively) between WT and transgenic lines in the same P treatment was calculated by LSD test.