Table 3.
Leaf chlorophyll content, plant height, tiller number, dry biomass and grain yield of wild-type and rbcs knockdown lines.
Chl (SPAD value) | Plant height cm | Tiller number | Dry biomass g | Grain yield g | |
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Wild-type | 43.14 ± 0.75b | 105 ± 1.4a | 26.1 ± 4.5abc | 58.16 ± 10.93a | 28.84 ± 7.68a |
rbcs2-165 | 42.30 ± 0.71bc | 105.6 ± 1.9a | 29.2 ± 3.9a | 57.36 ± 6.81a | 18.07 ± 5.59b |
rbcs2-266 | 44.04 ± 0.93a | 103.6 ± 1.2a | 27.5 ± 4.4ab | 44.32 ± 5.12b | 14.33 ± 4.52b |
rbcs4-022 | 41.84 ± 1.20c | 101.4 ± 1.8b | 22.6 ± 4.9bc | 32.60 ± 8.76c | 8.90 ± 2.44b |
rbcs4-053 | 42.00 ± 0.97c | 99.4 ± 3.0b | 23.4 ± 4.8c | 33.19 ± 8.23c | 13.80 ± 5.39b |
Chlorophyll contents (SPAD value) are the average ± SE of three leaves from ten individual plants. Plant height, tiller number, dry biomass and grain yield are the average ± SE of ten individual plants; 77 days post-germination. Biomass is the total dry weight of leaf, stem and sheath tissue. Different letters within groups indicate statistical significance based on a one-way ANOVA (p ≤ 0.05) with a Least Significant Difference (LSD) test for post-hoc pairwise comparison.