Fig. 6

The extraction pipeline described here has utility in screening myxospermous germplasm. a Total seed mucilage yield of 206 Plantago ovata mutants screened using the extraction pipeline. b Mucilage architecture of a validation set including a wild type, three low yield and three high yield lines observed using ruthenium red staining (scale = 1 mm). c Verification of mucilage yield in the validation set. d Differences in the seed mucilage fractionation profile of the validation set. e Water absorption by seed mucilage of the validation set. Values in c and e are means while error bars represent one standard deviation from the mean. Asterisks denote statistical differences from WT (significance levels are included on the relevant figures) as determined by Student’s t-test