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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Plant Reprod. 2009 Aug 19;23(1):1–13. doi: 10.1007/s00497-009-0109-0

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

MeJ causes developmental arrest in tassels. Greenhouse-grown bz2 plants in the W23 inbred line were injected with 1 mL of 1-μM MeJ at the 2–6-cm stage of tassel development, and the tassels were observed at maturity. Zones of 3–8 cm of pale tissue with anthers arrested at the 2 mm size were observed. The glumes had not matured or formed chlorophyll, resulting in a pale, nearly white zone of the tassel. In this example, the pale zone is distal on the central rachis and on all of the branch tips. BR treatment resulted in a browned area of 3–6 cm, which similarly could be in any part of the tassel (not shown)