Figure 8.

Analysis of siliques from wild-type (WT), pSuT-kd, and pSuT-ko plants. A and B, Analyses discriminated between young siliques (top part of the shoot), middle-aged siliques (middle part), and mature siliques (bottom part). For silique weight (A) and length (B) determination, five siliques of 29 or more plants were analyzed. Because of delayed bolting, pSuT-kd was analyzed 1 d and pSuT-ko was analyzed 2 d later than the wild type. C, Quantification of 1,000 seed weight was performed with 10 samples of seeds from two independent pools of at least 20 plants. D, Determination of the seed number per silique was performed with 70 or more siliques from five individual plants. Data represent means ± se. Significant differences compared with the wild type were calculated using one-tailed Student’s t test (*, P ≤ 0.05; **, P ≤ 0.01; and ***, P ≤ 0.001).