Table 1.

Morphometric comparison among WT and TaB2 Arabidopsis transgenics.

Morphological characteristics	WT- Col0	Δb2	CΔb2	B2.3-OE	B2.4-OE	B2.7-OE
Plant height (cm)a	15.2 ± 0.21	9 ± 0.63	16.2 ± 0.37	21.8 ± 0.35	23.2 ± 0.37	23.6 ± 0.25
Rosette diameter (cm)b	1.8 ± 0.02	1.5 ± 0.04	1.9 ± 0.06	2.02 ± 0.01	2.2 ± 0.06	1.9 ± 0.03
Rosette leaf no.b	8.8 ± 0.05	6.2 ± 0.64	8.6 ± 0.06	10.2 ± 0.13	11.3 ± 0.25	10.8 ± 0.29
Leaf length (cm)c	1.5 ± 0.12	0.8 ± 0.07	1.2 ± 0.12	1.92 ± 0.11	1.8 ± 0.13	1.9 ± 0.12
Leaf width (cm)c	0.9 ± 0.08	0.9 ± 0.52	0.9 ± 0.42	1.36 ± 0.07	1.2 ± 0.03	1.3 ± 0.09
Silique no./plant	10 ± 0.61	8.2 ± 0.41	12.4 ± 0.37	17.6 ± 0.04	16.8 ± 0.09	13 ± 0.07
Silique length (cm)	1.2 ± 0.08	0.9 ± 0.05	1.6 ± 0.08	1.98 ± 0.10	1.9 ± 0.09	2.0 ± 0.07

^aMaximum height of 3-week-old plant, ^bAt the time of bolting, ^cof the largest leaf at the time of bolting.