Cultivars | Treatment | Average area of tapetum cell | Number of vacuolated microspores | Number of stomium cells | Number of septum cells | |
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between bundle sheath and sub-stomial lacuna | between stomium and locule | |||||
 |  | μm2 cell−1 | No. locule−1 | No. locule−1 | No. locule− 1 | No. locule− 1 |
LYPJ | CK | 40.5 ± 1.7 b | 7.2 ± 0.3 a | 5.5 ± 0.3 a | 2.8 ± 0.2 a | 0.9 ± 0.1 a |
HT | 95.7 ± 4.1 a* | 1.5 ± 0.0 b | 4.8 ± 0.2 a | 3.0 ± 0.0 a | 1.1 ± 0.1 a | |
SY63 | CK | 44.4 ± 5.3 a | 8.2 ± 0.2 a | 5.5 ± 0.3 a | 2.3 ± 0.2 a | 0.5 ± 0.1 a |
HT | 48.5 ± 1.9 a | 7.2 ± 0.3 a* | 4.3 ± 0.3 a | 2.5 ± 0.3 a | 0.8 ± 0.0 a |