. 2015 Feb 12;115(5):807–820. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcv013

Table 1.

Duration of early flower developmental stages

Line	Plastochron age of primordium
Line	Bulging at the initial crease	The oldest primordium with rudimentary bract	The youngest primordium with lateral sepals
WT	3·30^a± 0·47 (23)	4·89^a± 0·78 (9)	6·74^a± 0·54 (21)
cuc2 cuc3	3·79^b± 0·71 (19)	6·27^b± 1·27 (11)	8·71^b± 1·51 (14)

Values are means ± s.d. with the number of apices sampled given in parentheses

Different indices refer to statistically significant differences for pair-wise comparisons in columns (Mann–Whitney test, P = 0·05).