Responses of earliness and lateness genes for heading to different photoperiods, and specific response of a gene or a pair of genes to short day length in rice

Table 6 Number of developed leaves, and lengths of culm and panicle in T65-R, T65wx and their early and late NILs

Line/ Variety	10-h photoperiod^a	13.5-h photoperiod^a	Spring-sowing paddy field in 2018
Line/ Variety	No. of leaves^b	No. of leaves^c	Culm length^d	Panicle length^d
ER50	9.2 ab	10.2 a	73.4 a	18.2 a
ER40	10.0 bc	11.4 bc	80.5 b	20.5 b
ER20	9.7 ab	10.7 ab	79.0 b	20.0 b
ER1	10.0 bc	11.9 cd	84.6 c	20.2 b
ER21	10.8 cd	10.9 b	78.4 b	20.8 b
T65-R	13.0 f	12.7 e	86.5 cd	22.9 cd
T65-T	12.0 e	12.6 de	80.2 b	22.6 cd
T65wx	11.0 d	12.9 e	78.2 b	22.3 c
LF3	9.0 a	14.1 f	97.0 e	23.3 cd
LF1	13.2 f	14.1 f	80.8 b	22.8 cd
LF2	9.5 ab	14.5 f	87.9 d	20.2 b

Values followed by the same letter within the same column are not statistically different at the 5% level, in accordance with Tukey-Kramer’s method (Sokal and Rohlf [28])
^aArtificial light-type growth chamber
^b5 to 7 plants per line were measured
^c11 to 17 plants per line were measured
^d19 to 24 plants per line were measured

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