Table 2.
Phenotypical distribution of the 160 acclimated plants as a function of the TSA treatments in vitro. Each plant was individually scored for their leaf pairs (lp) number, roots (r) number, stems (a) number and colour index. Treatments consisted in growing in vitro embryogenic clusters in contact with 1 µM TSA for 0 (control), 1, 7 and 14 days.
| Phenotypic scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leaves | 2lp | 3lp | 4lp | 5lp | 6lp | 7lp | Total | |
| Control | 12 | 18 | 10 | 40 | ||||
| TSA1 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 40 | |||
| TSA7 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 40 | ||
| TSA14 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 40 | |||
| Total | 1 | 48 | 63 | 43 | 4 | 1 | 160 | |
| Roots | 0r | 1r | 2r | 3r | 4r | Total | ||
| Control | 5 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 40 | |||
| TSA1 | 1 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 40 | ||
| TSA7 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 40 | ||
| TSA14 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 40 | |||
| Total | 12 | 76 | 56 | 14 | 2 | 160 | ||
| Stems | 1a | 2a | Total | |||||
| Control | 36 | 4 | 40 | |||||
| TSA1 | 38 | 2 | 40 | |||||
| TSA7 | 37 | 3 | 40 | |||||
| TSA14 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |||||
| Total | 147 | 13 | 160 | |||||
| Colour index | 357 | 364 | 370 | 371 | 376 | 377 | 382 | Total |
| Control | 1 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 40 | |
| TSA1 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 40 | ||||
| TSA7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 40 | |
| TSA14 | 9 | 20 | 4 | 7 | 40 | |||
| Total | 1 | 25 | 37 | 19 | 2 | 75 | 1 | 160 |