Figure 3

Analysis of the leaf elongation datasets of maize, Miscanthus and Brachypodium using LEAF-E. (A) Leaf length measurements of transgenic (white triangle) and non-transgenic (black triangle) plants of a segregating population produced by backcrossing a transgenic plant overexpressing the GA20ox1 gene to the wild-type line B104 maize, including leaf length (s-shaped) and LER (bell-shaped) function plots for both groups using the mean values of the function parameters. (B) Leaf length measurements of Miscanthus sinensis ‘Goliath’ (black triangle) and M. x giganteus (white triangle) plants, including leaf length and LER function plots for both groups using the mean values of the function parameters. (C) Leaf length and LER function plots for Brachypodium distachyon inbred lines Bd3-1 (full line), Bd21 (dotted), Bd21-3 (dashed) and Bd2-3 (dash dotted) using the mean values of the function parameters. For the sake of clarity, the individual leaf length measurements are not shown in this case.