Table 3.
Range and means of total protein content in the grains collected from silent T1 lines of wheat cv. Kontesa and triticale cv. Wanad.
| Cultivar /vector/ | No. of lines | Protein (%) |
Protein/dry weight (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Range | Mean (SE) | Range | Mean (SE) | ||
| Kontesa | |||||
| /amiPb/ | 46 | 10.09–17.86 | 14.65 (0.23) | 11.86–19.58 | 16.27 (0.35)∗ |
| control | 5 | 13.03–18.33 | 16.40 (0.91) | 14.13–20.06 | 17.92 (1.03)∗ |
| Wanad | |||||
| /amiPb/ | 28 | 9.23–18.22 | 13.74 (0.48) | 10.09–20.19 | 15.17 (0.53) |
| Control | 4 | 12.15–13.58 | 12.81 (0.30) | 13.47–15.06 | 14.17 (0.30) |
∗Differences statistically significant (ANOVA: p = 0.037; α = 0.05).