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. 2018 Jun 1;9:693. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00693

Table 2.

Results of a two-way analysis of variance for the effect of genotype, growth light intensity, and the degree of genotype response to growth light intensity for parameters in Table 1 and scores of principal components 1 and 2 (see Figure 10).

Parameter Genotype Light Genotype × Light
Minor vein density (mm mm-2) ∗∗∗ ∗∗ n.s.
Cells per minor vein ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗
Cells per minor vein × vein density n.s. ∗∗∗ n.s.
Xylem cells per minor vein ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ ∗∗
Phloem cells per minor vein ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ n.s.
Ratio of xylem to phloem cells ∗∗∗ n.s.
Tracheary elements per minor vein ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ ∗∗
Sieve elements per minor vein ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗
CCs + PCs per minor vein ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ n.s.
Ratio of tracheary to sieve elements ∗∗ n.s. n.s.
Photosynthetic capacity (μmol O2 m-2 s-1) n.s. ∗∗∗ n.s.
Phloem cells per minor vein × vein density n.s. ∗∗∗ n.s.
Sieve elements per minor vein × vein density n.s. ∗∗∗ n.s.
CCs + PCs per minor vein × vein density n.s. ∗∗∗ n.s.
Transpiration ratio (mol H2O mol-1 CO2) ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗
Xylem cells per minor vein × vein density ∗∗ ∗∗∗ n.s.
Tracheary elements per minor vein × vein density ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ n.s.
Principal component 1 ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗
Principal component 2 ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗ ∗∗∗

The asterisks denote significant effects; P < 0.05, ∗∗P < 0.01, ∗∗∗P < 0.001, and n.s., not significant. CC, companion cells; PC, phloem parenchyma cells.