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Fig. 4 | Plant Methods

Fig. 4

From: A toolkit to rapidly modify root systems through single plant selection

Fig. 4

Density distribution for root angle displayed by BC2F2:F3 populations selected for ‘narrow’ (64 plants) and ‘wide’ (64 plants) phenotypes in the previous generation (BC2F2). BC2F2:F3 derived from crossing Borlaug100 and three donors (SW107, SW388 and SW309). Distribution of recurrent parent Borlaug100 (16 plants) is also displayed. The dotted vertical lines indicate the mean of the narrow tail (73.3°), wide tail (104.7°) and the recurrent parent Borlaug100 (85.8°). Significant differences were revealed between the means of Borlaug100 and the narrow tail (P ≤ 0.001), Borlaug100 and the wide tail (P ≤ 0.001), narrow and wide tails (P ≤ 0.001)

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