Table 1.

Analysis of relevant characters of wild-type B73 and mutant lpa1 cloverleaf.

Traits	B73	lpa1
Leaf length/cm	84.68 ± 6.86 a	81.43 ± 4.89 a
Leaf width/cm	14.16 ± 0.29 ab	10.20 ± 0.32 b
Leaf angle/°	33.19 ± 0.44 b	38.94 ± 3.53 a
High point length/cm	62.70 ± 4.70 b	55.49 ± 2.29 a
Leaf space/cm	12.32 ± 0.16 b	17.06 ± 0.58 a
Leaf orientation value	42.11 ± 1.64 b	34.78 ± 1.44 a
Plant height/cm	235.78 ± 0.92 a	222.66 ± 0.66 b

Note: Lowercase letters indicate a significant difference at 5% level.