Table 3 First wheat root phenotyping study for the low TAB cultivar Cadenza compared to the high TAB cultivar Hereward in two field seasons (2009–2010 and 2014–2015).
Field Season | 2009/2010 | 2014/2015 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cultivar | Square root number of seminal roots per plant (Bt1 mean) | Square root number of crown roots per plant (Bt mean) | Logit take-all index (Bt mean) | Logit % roots infected in post-harvest soil core bioassay (Bt mean) | Square root number of seminal roots per plant (Bt mean) | Square root number of crown roots per plant (Bt mean) | Root system dry weight per plant (g) | Logit take-all index (Bt mean) | Logit % roots infected in post-harvest soil core bioassay (Bt mean) |
Cadenza | 2.222 (4.94) | 4.420 (19.54) | −4.31 (0.84) | −4.83 (0.30) | 2.145 (4.60) | 5.025 (25.25) | 0.1983 | −3.84 (1.62) | −1.55 (17.20) |
Hereward | 2.101 (4.41) | 4.217 (17.78) | −4.74 (0.37) | −3.87 (1.57) | 1.901 (3.62) | 5.041 (25.42) | 0.1766 | −3.93 (1.45) | −0.29 (42.73) |
SED | 0.061 | 0.103 | 0.459 | 1.183 | 0.065 | 0.162 | 0.015 | 0.623 | 0.321 |
F Probability | 0.141 | 0.141 | 0.413 | 0.474 | 0.033 | 0.924 | 0.233 | 0.899 | 0.030 |
