Table 1.
Description of the 25 miscanthus genotypes used in this study
| Genotype | Species | Ploidy | Leaf percentage |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active growth | Peak biomass | Senesced | |||
| gig01 | M. × giganteus | 3n | 44·53 ± 5·82 | 36·45 ± 0·49 | 16·07 ± 0·76 |
| gig02 | M. × giganteus | 3n | 42·30 ± 3·32 | 36·65 ± 3·32 | 17·87 ± 3·13 |
| gig03 | M. × giganteus | 4n | 42·23 ± 1·00 | 36·25 ± 0·21 | 15·77 ± 5·20 |
| hyb01 | 55 % M. sinensis; 45 % M. sacchariflorus* | 2n | 55·03 ± 3·35 | 48·60 ± 1·56 | 26·33 ± 2·91 |
| hyb02 | 72 % M. sinensis; 28 % M. sacchariflorus | 2n | 67·67 ± 3·36 | 45·10 ± 6·93 | 36·63 ± 3·87 |
| hyb03 | 64 % M. sinensis; 36 % M. sacchariflorus | 3n | 53·20 ± 6·92 | 36·55 ± 0·49 | 22·07 ± 1·45 |
| sac01 | M. sacchariflorus | 2n | 53·20 ± 1·83 | 49·25 ± 1·91 | 32·07 ± 6·20 |
| sin01 | M. sinensis | 2n | 68·17 ± 1·10 | 59·40 ± 7·07 | 38·57 ± 2·57 |
| sin02 | M. sinensis | 2n | 61·80 ± 4·77 | 50·85 ± 6·72 | 31·40 ± 1·85 |
| sin03 | M. sinensis | 2n | 68·13 ± 22·13 | 60·55 ± 17·61 | 46·17 ± 21·27 |
| sin04 | M. sinensis | 2n | 74·27 ± 1·78 | 65·55 ± 4·88 | 34·23 ± 0·85 |
| sin05 | M. sinensis | 2n | 64·13 ± 4·43 | 56·85 ± 0·64 | 37·10 ± 3·30 |
| sin06 | M. sinensis | 2n | 71·57 ± 3·01 | 62·70 ± 0·14 | 52·67 ± 4·62 |
| sin07 | M. sinensis | 2n | 66·87 ± 2·01 | 56·60 ± 1·13 | 28·87 ± 2·51 |
| sin08 | M. sinensis | 2n | 69·67 ± 10·21 | 63·35 ± 0·21 | 37·40 ± 1·28 |
| sin09 | M. sinensis | 3n | 63·47 ± 1·01 | 59·70 ± 2·55 | 36·57 ± 1·52 |
| sin10 | M. sinensis | 2n | 66·97 ± 1·54 | 52·35 ± 2·90 | 36·43 ± 2·25 |
| sin11 | M. sinensis | 2n | 70·17 ± 0·76 | 60·95 ± 1·63 | 31·00 ± 12·91 |
| sin12 | M. sinensis | 2n | 76·03 ± 9·49 | 66·65 ± 11·81 | 59·87 ± 16·37 |
| sin13 | M. sinensis | 2n | 80·43 ± 2·50 | 78·75 ± 0·78 | 63·17 ± 11·55 |
| sin14 | M. sinensis | 2n | 69·73 ± 2·65 | 64·50 ± 0·71 | 50·63 ± 2·75 |
| sin15 | M. sinensis | 2n | 60·50 ± 1·70 | 54·80 ± 6·08 | 31·70 ± 1·60 |
| sin16 | M. sinensis | 2n | 66·63 ± 4·07 | 61·80 ± 4·81 | 39·47 ± 5·20 |
| sin17 | M. sinensis | 2n | 67·37 ± 8·71 | 62·45 ± 16·48 | 38·27 ± 9·72 |
| sin18 | M. sinensis | 2n | 70·90 ± 7·10 | 62·70 ± 0·99 | 41·93 ± 7·09 |
| Overall | 63·80 ± 10·14 | 55·57 ± 10·93 | 36·09 ± 12·12 | ||
Values for leaf percentage of total biomass dry weight are expressed as mean ± s.d. for the three replicated plants at the three developmental stages for each genotype.
*M. sinensis/M. sacchariflorus admixture proportions determined from single-nucleotide polymorphism data (Slavov et al., 2013b).