Table 3.

Yield characteristics of transgenic lines containing the sugarcane pepc gene

Line	Biological weight (g)	Panicle length (cm)	Filled grain	Total grain	Grain filling (%)	1,000-grain weight (g)	Harvest index (%)
T34	128.1 ± 2.1bc	25.1 ± 1.1	1,250.7 ± 148.0b	2,547.3 ± 231.6b	47.9 ± 4.7	24.7 ± 0.3	24.1 ± 2.4a
T51	135.8 ± 27.6bcd	23.6 ± 1.2	2,496.3 ± 201.8e	4,261.0 ± 964.9e	60.2 ± 11.0	25.7 ± 0.3	48.7 ± 12.1cd
T53	125.8 ± 28.9b	22.1 ± 1.9	2,289.0 ± 721.1d	3,997.3 ± 898.9d	56.5 ± 4.8	23.5 ± 1.6	42.6 ± 7.8c
T54	104.2 ± 30.7a	23.7 ± 3.6	2,121.3 ± 2,071.3c	3,892.0 ± 2,471.1c	47.3 ± 17.5	22.7 ± 0.2	41.8 ± 32.2b
WT	67.3 ± 4.1a	21.0 ± 1.2	565.0 ± 163.4a	1,166.0 ± 182.0a	47.8 ± 6.3	26.2 ± 0.5	21.9 ± 5.3a

Grain filling (%) = filled grain/total grain × 100 %, Harvest index (%) = filled grain weight/biological weight × 100 %. Values shown are averages of three replicates. Statistical analyses were undertaken using SPSS and MS Excel 2010. a, b, c, d, e indicated significant difference