Evidence for separate translocation pathways in determining cadmium accumulation in grain and aerial plant parts in rice

Table 2 Comparison of agronomic traits between "Nipponbare" and NILs.

	Nipponbare	NILqcd4-1	NILqcd4-2	NILqcd4-1,2
Days from transplanting to heading	76	72	73	75
Dry matter weight per tiller at 5 days after heading (g tiller^-1)	3.21 ± 0.14	2.84 ± 0.13*	3.33 ± 1.11	3.45 ± 0.13
Dry matter weight per tiller at 35 days after heading (g tiller^-1)	4.73 ± 0.12	4.33 ± 0.18*	4.88 ± 0.15	4.69 ± 0.10
Yield traits
Number of ears per plant	12.8 ± 0.7	10.7 ± 0.7*	12.2 ± 0.9	14.1 ± 1.1
Number of grains per ear	84.6 ± 3.6	89.8 ± 2.7	90.7 ± 3.9	88.6 ± 2.6
1,000-grain weight (g)	21.5 ± 0.2	18.1 ± 0.1***	20.8 ± 0.1**	19.0 ± 0.1***

Data are expressed as means ± SE of nine plants; ***,**,*, Significant at the 0.001, 0.01 and 0.05 probability levels, respectively.

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