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Table 1 The frequency of anaphase bridges in tert/nbs1 Arabidopsis mutants during cultivation

From: NBS1 plays a synergistic role with telomerase in the maintenance of telomeres in Arabidopsis thaliana

Generation

Line

Anaphases scored

No of anaphase bridges

% total bridged anaphases

Single

Double

Triple

Quadruple

G1

K12

100

    

0.0

G1

L2

131

    

0.0

G2

K12

112

    

0.0

G2

L2

91

    

0.0

G3

K12

95

4

   

4.2

G3

L2

357

6

3

  

2.5

G4

K12

248

25

4

  

11.7

G4

L2

42

3

   

7.1

G5

K12

348

57

28

1

 

22.1

G5

L2

331

53

32

  

25.7

G6

K12

614

130

101

10

2

39.4

G6

L2

381

67

59

16

3

38.1

  1. In G1 to G2 no anaphase bridges were detected. Two independent lines of tert/nbs1 double mutants were scored, K12 and L2. The 95 % Confidence Intervals [25] show that no statistical differences exist between the values for lines K12 and L2 in generations G3 to G6.