Table 2.

Growth measurements from TAC1 RNAi plum trees and President their respective standard plum control

	Standard President			TAC1 RNAi			P -value
	Avg.	SD	SEM	Avg.	SD	SEM
Branch angle	a38	9.5	4.8	a17.0	10.8	2.7	<0.01
Branch length (cm)	a26	22.2	11.1	a50.0	19.1	4.8	<0.01
Branch diameter (mm)	13	4.6	2.3	12.0	3.2	0.8	0.23
Trunk diameter (mm)	a34	4.5	2.3	a42.0	5.3	1.3	0.01
Tree height (m)	3.11	0.5	0.3	3.4	0.5	0.1	0.3

SD standard deviation, SEM standard error of the mean

^aStatistically a significant difference based on a P-value <0.05