In brief, plantlets started to emerge from control tubers 5 d after sowing to reach an overall emergence rate of 80%% (i.e. 16 tubers emerged out of 20 sown) after 17 d, comparable to line K52 tubers exhibiting a 90%% emergence rate (18 tubers out of 20) recorded from 6 to 15 d post-sowing (Fig. 4a).
Such rapid emergence rate raised the question whether newly emerged miRNA genes have undergone rapid sequence evolution.
Leaf emergence rate was calculated according to the methods described by Itoh et al. (1998).
However, CSSL-5 seedlings were shorter in mesocotyl length and lower in emergence rate than Kasalath.
Leaf emergence rate was estimated as previously described (Itoh et al. 1998).
Emergence Percentage (E%), Emergence Rate Index (ERI), and early field vigour traits viz.
Previous study by Jalali and Singh (1992) staggered the development of T. chilonis for up to 14 days with 60% emergence rate, but our findings prolonged the storage without reducing its emergence rate for up to 50 days.
Seedlings were also counted on day 7 to determine the emergence rate, and at the end of the study.
Lu et al. (2016) showed that long mesocotyl rice accessions had higher emergence rate than that of the short one at 2 and 5-cm sowing depth.
Storing at this temperature can provide a minimum of 70% emergence rate and 3 days of longevity after 30 days of storage irrespective to the species/strains tested.
Before flowering, the leaf emergence rate of ghd10 was almost the same as that of the wild type under both NSD and NLD conditions.
