Fig. 6.

Effect of MeJA treatment on flowering and final leaf number in Triticum aestivum wheat plants cv Manitou. (a) Time course of flowering. Three-week-old plants were sprayed with 150 μM of MeJA dissolved in 0.1% tween 20 every day for 2 weeks at 20 ºC under LD conditions. Control plants were treated with 0.1% tween 20 solution only under the same growth conditions. The percentage of flowering plants was determined for both treated and control plants. (b) Final leaf number. Results were expressed as the mean ± SEM of six different experiments. Comparison between groups and analysis for differences between means of control and treated plants were performed using ANOVA followed by the post-hoc test Newman–Keuls. The threshold for statistical significance was: *: P<0.05.