Table 3.

Comparison of agronomic traits between transgenic and non-transgenic Triticum aestivum L. cv. ‘Bobwhite’ in Exp. 2 and Exp. 3 at different temperature ranges

Temp.	Event name	TKW				Seed numbers per selected head				Physiological maturity (days)
		2nd experiment (high temp 33/26°C)		3rd experiment (high temp 34/28°C)		2nd experiment (high temp 33/26°C)		3rd experiment (high temp 34/28°C)		2nd experiment (high temp 33/26°C)		3rd experiment (high temp 34/28°C)
		Mean ± STD	T stat	Mean ± STD	T stat	Mean ± STD	T stat	Mean ± STD	T stat	Mean ± STD	T stat	Mean ± STD	T stat
High temperature	BWTC	22.87 ± 1.94	0.301	20.23 ± 2.65	0.134	47.40 ± 4.56	0.48	46.6 ± 11.74	0.32	26.8 ± 3.27	0.25	22.8 ± 1.30	0.63
	BWNTC	22.51 ± 1.67		19.94 ± 3.89		46.00 ± 4.24		48.8 ± 9.73		27.25 ± 2.22		22.4 ± 0.54
	BW	22.71 ± 1.73	–	20.09 ± 3.14	–	46.78 ± 4.20	–	47.7 ± 10.23	–	27 ± 2.69	–	22.6 ± 0.97	–
	Ub1	24.45 ± 1.44	1.89*	24.35 ± 4.31	1.96*	46.00 ± 4.08	0.31	50.4 ± 12.80	0.41	29 ± 3.92	0.93	23.4 ± 0.89	1.59
	Ub2	25.17 ± 2.35	1.88*	25.03 ± 2.46	3.50**	49.50 ± 13.47	0.40	48.33 ± 4.13	0.17	28 ± 2.45	0.66	23.66 ± 0.82	2.36*
	Ub	24.81 ± 1.84	2.41*	24.70 ± 3.24	3.30**	47.75 ± 9.41	0.27	49.27 ± 8.67	0.38	28.5 ± 3.07	1.06	23.54 ± 0.82	2.41*
	Dy10	28.54 ± 1.85	6.14***	27.04 ± 3.12	3.75**	36.83 ± 9.22	2.48*	25.25 ± 5.85	5.14**	29.66 ± 2.50	1.96*	24.25 ± 0.96	2.90*
Optimum temperature 22/15°C	BWTC	40.95 ± 2.27	0.144	40.91 ± 2.68	0.932	39.0 ± 8.18	0	50.2 ± 11.26	0.989	40.8 ± 1.79	1.31	38.8 ± 1.30	0
	BWNTC	40.69 ± 3.00		39.45 ± 2.25		39.0 ± 10.61		56.4 ± 8.35		43 ± 2.94		38.8 ± 4.82
	BW	40.84 ± 2.41	–	40.18 ± 2.46	–	39.0 ± 8.70	–	53.3 ± 9.9	–	41.78 ± 2.49	–	38.8 ± 3.33	–
	Ub1	42.11 ± 3.37	0.68	43.57 ± 4.28	1.77	37.5 ± 9.15	0.276	53.83 ± 10.06	0.103	42 ± 3.46	0.115	36.5 ± 4.42	1.10
	Ub2	40.27 ± 1.36	1.81	43.17 ± 2.16	2.55*	49.5 ± 11.15	1.67	53.84 ± 9.54	0.106	41 ± 3.37	0.414	37.17 ± 5.19	0.69
	Ub	41.20 ± 2.57	0.292	43.38 ± 3.25	2.63**	43.5 ± 20.06	0.587	53.83 ± 9.35	0.129	41.5 ± 3.21	0.20	36.83 ± 4.61	1.16
	Dy10	40.53 ± 1.76	0.276	44.68 ± 4.54	1.87	30.0 ± 7.11	1.96*	36.75 ± 16.52	1.87	41.2 ± 1.64	0.52	40.25 ± 4.03	0.64

The Ub observation combines the Ub1 and Ub2 observations

TKW thousand kernel weight, BWTC non-transgenic Bobwhite established through tissue culture, BWNTC non-transgenic Bobwhite not regenerated through tissue culture, Ub1 event 1286 having ubiquitin promoter, Ub2 event 1700 having ubiquitin promoter, Dy10 event 2173 having Dy10 promoter, STD standard deviation

*, **, and *** denote P < 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 respectively