Sentence examples for mutant plants causing from inspiring English sources

Heat stress affected the pollen quality of both wild-type and Nr mutant plants, causing a 1.75- and 2.5-fold reduction in the number of viable pollen grains per flower, respectively (Table  1).

Phenotype analysis revealed that the reduced fertility of triple mutant plants was caused by delayed or insufficient development of pistils.

Our results indicated that the reduced fertility of triple mutant plants was caused by delayed or insufficient development of floral organs.

It might be that the total deficiency of the enzyme activity in mutants or antisense inhibition plants caused much more dramatic changes in starch granule structure and resulted in significant effect on grain quality.

We verified our finding that the reduced ABA-content in Az34 mutant plants was the cause for a lower degree of susceptibility against M. oryzae by chemical complementation.

(a) BR loss-of-function mutant plants (bri1-5) have increased and gain-of-function BR mutants (bes1-D) have decreased drought tolerance.

This role in controlling axillary bud growth was further shown in the bushy and dwarf 2 (bud2) mutant in Arabidopsis (Cui et al. 2010); mutant plants exhibit a bushy phenotype caused by an increased axillary bud outgrowth, and showed elevated levels of endogenous cytokinins.

The snd2 mutant plants exhibit a little early flowering may be caused by the effects of the flowering genes expression (Fig. 5d), but show normal morphology.

Contrary to the wild-type plants in which PGPR stimulated growth rates, PGPR caused growth inhibition in ABA-deficient mutant plants.

Lack of differences in the grain weight of seeds on INV3 +/− lines irrespective of the genotype indicates that the small grain phenotype of the mutant plant is not solely caused by the filial factor (highlighting a maternal influence on grain weight).

In plants, HcPro, P21, P19, P15 and P14 interfere with miRNAs, causing developmental defects that resemble those observed in mutant plants deficient in their miRNA pathway [20] [23].