Table 2.

Measurement of phenotypic indexes of wild-type and ZmMYB59 transgenic plants

Species	Lines	Germination rate (%)	Germination index	Vigor index	Hypocotyl/Mesocotyl length (cm)
Tobacco	WT	91.7 ± 8.1a	2.61 ± 0.30a	105.94 ± 23.20a	0.32 ± 0.02a
	OE1	51.0 ± 6.0bc	1.37 ± 0.18b	26.08 ± 5.38bc	0.23 ± 0.02b
	OE2	45.0 ± 5.3c	1.19 ± 0.11b	12.42 ± 2.40c	0.22 ± 0.01b
	OE3	68.8 ± 7.5b	1.71 ± 0.44b	45.05 ± 8.61b	0.25 ± 0.03b
Rice	WT	58.0 ± 3.4a	1.40 ± 0.03a	40.04 ± 6.10a	0.53 ± 0.07a
	OE2	26.8 ± 4.2b	0.40 ± 0.01c	10.43 ± 3.20b	0.31 ± 0.01b
	OE4	35.3 ± 8.6b	0.68 ± 0.08b	19.01 ± 8.25b	0.38 ± 0.10b
	OE6	28.7 ± 6.3b	0.49 ± 0.04c	13.85 ± 5.37b	0.33 ± 0.08b

WT and OE represent wild-type and ZmMYB59 transgenic plants, respectively. Means with standard deviations that do not followed by the same lower case letter between OE and WT lines significantly differ by ANOVA analysis at 5% level of significance. Three replicates of twenty seeds each were used for germination test.