Figure 5.

Down‐regulation of MsFTa1 improves the ratio of leaf to stem biomass (a) Total dry weight partitioned as leaf dry weight (light grey bars) and stem dry weight (dark grey bars) and (b) leaf / stem ratio for 4 transgenic lines (E1, E2, E5, E8) overexpressing amiRNA‐FTA1 compared to WT regenerated controls. All dry weights were determined two weeks after the last WT plant flowered. All plants were grown at 23°C under a LD photoperiod. Bars represent the means ± SE of 8–10 individual grown clonal plants per line. Results were analysed by a one‐way ANOVA with posterior Dunnett test. Asterisks represent different levels of significance (P ≤ 0.05 = *, P ≤ 0.01 = **, P ≤ 0.001 = ***).