Table 1.

Morphological characterization of WT and T₂ miR156+ L. japonicus plants

Trait	‘Gifu’ WT	Overexpression line #20	Overexpression line #22
Leaf width (mm)	4.32 ± 0.59	3.37 ± 0.36*	3.50 ± 0.24*
Leaf length (mm)	9.71 ± 0.64	6.51 ± 0.64*	7.09 ± 0.47*
Silique length (mm)	29.10 ± 0.55	21.60 + 0.56*	20.01 ± 0.56*
Flowering time (day)	94.14 ± 3.41	124.57 ± 7.64*	126.43 ± 4.32*

More than five leaves and siliques were randomly collected from each replicate plant. Values are mean ± SE (n = 3). The flowering times were recorded from at least five plants from each seed line (values are mean ± SE)

* Significant difference of the means at P < 0.05 (one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s test)