TABLE 1.

Agronomic traits of the wild type and mutants.

Agronomic traits	Materials
	WT	msl-1	msl-2
Plant height (cm)	91.20 ± 6.83	83.29 ± 2.06*	75.67 ± 1.15**
Number of tillers	8.40 ± 1.34	5.29 ± 1.11**	3.33 ± 0.58**
Effective panicle	8.20 ± 1.10	3.57 ± 0.79**	3.00 ± 1.00**
Panicle length (cm)	21.40 ± 1.38	18.98 ± 1.91	19.58 ± 1.29
Grain number per panicle	137.28 ± 15.90	96.56 ± 18.14**	94.72 ± 5.04**
Filled grain number per panicle	116.13 ± 17.38	61.00 ± 11.75**	28.11 ± 2.59**
Primary branch number	11.00 ± 0.76	9.90 ± 0.98	10.28 ± 0.75
Secondary branch number	24.30 ± 5.90	13.16 ± 5.05**	10.83 ± 2.02**
Setting rate (%)	84.35 ± 3.57	63.30 ± 5.22**	29.65 ± 1.64**
1,000-grain weight (g)	26.62 ± 0.17	19.91 ± 0.17**	17.80 ± 0.18**
Heading time (day)	102.60 ± 1.14	107.14 ± 0.90**	113.33 ± 2.08**

The data in table are the average value ± standard deviation of 10 individual plants. * and **, significant differences at P < 0.05 and P < 0.01, respectively (Student’s t-test).