Next, for each miRNA, we extracted ∼500-nt pri-miRNA sequences, generated secondary structures and measured the length of stem containing mature miRNA sequence (length between hairpin loop junction and bulge defined as more than four consecutive non-paring nucleotides or starting point of other branch of stems).
The following traits were phenotyped on ten mature plants, which were selected at random from each accession: leaf width, leaf length, stem diameter, number of heads, number of primary branches, number of secondary branches, number of stem leaves, plant height, and head size.
Branching of stems is common, as are taproots.
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Apicomplexans are within the branch of eukaryotes stemming from an ancestor bearing CTD heptad repeats.
While there are some branches of the stem that would unquestionably be considered "birds" had they survived, this becomes more problematic further down the tree.
Both transgenic genotypes presented also increased lateral branching of the stem compared with the WT (WS) genotype.
