Table 2.
Embryo induction and plant yield for ‘Morex’ barley (♂) crosses of two wheat genotypes
| Wheat genotype (♀) | This study | Polgári et al. (2014) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. spikes | No. florets | No. embryos (%) | No. plants (%) | No. spikes | No. florets | No. embryos (%) | No. plants (%) | |
| ‘Sichuan’ | 67 | 1717 | 269 (15.7a) | 199 (11.6a) | 10 | 285 | 45 (15.8a) | 40 (14.0a) |
| CS PhI | 38 | 836 | 48 (5.7) | 19 (2.3) | 34 | 810 | 47 (5.8) | 32 (4.0) |
| Total | 105 | 2553 | 317 (12.4) | 218b (8.5) | 44 | 1095 | 92 (8.4) | 72 (6.6) |
aHighly significant (p < 0.0001) difference from CS PhI for that parameter with a two-tailed two-sample z test and Chi-square test
bThe 210 plants for molecular analysis (Suppl. Table 1) were composed of 194 and 16 plants from the ‘Sichuan’ and CS PhI crosses, respectively