Figure 3

Phosphorus concentration in different tissues of DJ123 and IR64 grown under varying phosphorus supply. Data are the mean ± SE of four independent replicates. ‘HP’ and ‘LP’ stand for high- and low-phosphorus supply, respectively. Plants were grown on HP and LP treatments for 40 days after germination. Then, both groups were splitted into two sub-groups. Phosphorus supply was continued as usual for one sub-group of each treatment (labelled as ‘C’) and stopped for the other group (labelled as ‘S’). After approximately 24 and 48 h, LP and HP sub-groups were harvested, respectively. Significant differences among treatments were determined by ‘generalised least square’ model, separated by Tukey’s test (P < 0.05), and are indicated by different letters.