Table 4. Phenotype of field grown ari-e mutant lines in comparison to the respective mother cultivar.

	Bowman	BW042 (ari-e.1)	BW043 (ari-e.GP)	May-thorpe	Golden Promise	Foma	ari-e.119*	ari-e.156*	ari-e.166*	Bonus	ari-e.1*	ari-e.30*	ari-e.39*
Number of plants measured	19	17	16	13	15	13	10	11	17	19	15	18	19
straw length [cm]	94.3 ± 5.1	67.7 ± 5.5	67.2 ± 2.6	86.8 ± 3.4	67.8 ± 3.5	93.2 ± 3.6	64.1 ± 2.9	79.7 ± 3.6	78.1 ± 6.1	93.6 ± 3.8	74.1 ± 1.3	68.2 ± 4.5	78.7 ± 5.7
significance#		< 0.001	< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001		< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
spike length [cm]	8.7 ± 0.6	7.3 ± 0.5	7.1 ± 0.8	9.3 ± 0.5	9.0 ± 0.8	9.5 ± 0.9	9.2 ± 1.2	9.5 ± 1.1	8.5 ± 1.4	10.8 ± 1.0	10.2 ± 1.0	9.0 ± 0.9	9.5 ± 1.1
significance#		< 0.001	< 0.001		0.215		0.411	0.979	0.034		0.074	< 0.001	< 0.001
ratio length (spike + awn)/spike	2.39 ± 0.12	1.96 ± 0.09	1.89 ± 0.26	2.20 ± 0.10	1.70 ± 0.13	2.26 ± 0.15	1.80 ± 0.30	1.69 ± 0.10	1.75 ± 0.11	1.96 ± 0.10	1.52 ± 0.07	1.74 ± 0.09	1.65 ± 0.09
significance#		< 0.001	< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001		< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Number of grains per spike	21.26 ± 1.24	19.47 ± 1.55	18.94 ± 1.77	29.00 ± 1.96	29.13 ± 2.13	29.23 ± 1.42	30.70 ± 1.34	33.18 ± 2.89	27.19 ± 2.61	30.68 ± 1.57	29.07 ± 2.12	30.33 ± 2.20	30.74 ± 2.10
significance#		< 0.001	< 0.001		0.865		0.020	< 0.001	0.018		0.015	0.578	0.931
thousand grain weight (TGW) [g]	48.9 ± 3.1	40.2 ± 2.0	38.3 ± 3.0	50.78 ± 3.39	41.54 ± 4.74	47.94 ± 3.94	35.58 ± 2.06	35.04 ± 7.55	33.84 ± 4.04	48.15 ± 2.80	41.06 ± 1.41	35.19 ± 2.40	34.74 ± 3.02
significance#		< 0.001	< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001		< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001

*Mutants ari-e.119, ari-e.156, and ari-e.166 are derived from Foma whereas ari-e.1, ari-e.30 and ari-e.39 were induced in Bonus

^#p values returned from t test between a mutant line and the respective mother cultivar (compare Table 3), a value of p < 0.05 was considered significant